La réforme du financement du système de santé en Russie

Abstract

Health reforms have been implemented in Russia for nearly a decade now. The first reform sought to improve the budgetary system for funding medical expenditures. In 1991, a health insurance system was set up. The major characteristics of Russian reform are: the complexity of the system of compulsory health insurance, which was introduced in bits and pieces ; the decentralization of reforms and regional differences in transitional models; and the attempts to oppose reforms and re-establish the former system for financing health care. The budget crisis has made it even more necessary to go on with reforms: a new phase was announced in 1997. The main tasks are to strike a balance between guarantees for access to free health care and public funds for such care; to correct financial flows to medical expenditures so as to overcome the piecemeal nature of health insurance; and to develop democratic procedures for administering and controlling the health system.