Healthcare in Poland is mainly financed by public sector entities, among them the National Health Fund (NFZ), state … services, health insurance premiums and investments in healthcare infrastructure. The basic role of the local governments is to … ensure access to the services, mostly by performing ownership functions towards healthcare institutions. …

comparing the target populationś change in healthcare utilization with that of poor adults already covered through employment … healthcare by granting the poor entitlement to tax-financed basic care without charge. We identify the impact of this policy by … poorest. The probability of getting formal healthcare when sick is increased by almost two fifths, while the likelihood of …

hospitals. We investigate whether this injection of additional funds has improved the quality of healthcare in the targeted … but not on the mortality rate. We argue that these results suggest that the main problem in Slovak healthcare is low …