Such is the two kinds of health systems for patients

• The quality of state health care has been reduced in recent years
• The Medical Chamber has launched a campaign to improve public funding
• 72% of health expenditure is covered by the state, the remainder of households

While only a few decades ago, only the wealthy allowed themselves to go to « masks » to a gynecologist, dermatologist, dentist, more and more people are being forced to provide private benefits, prescriptions, medical help. What are the situations where you can only rely on state benefits, about it We wrote in detail here.

State health can no longer provide the same quality as we say 5 years ago – he emphasized earlier Péter Álmos, President of the Hungarian Medical Chamber (MOK). He said It is not expected to receive health care from health care for health care such as Western Europebecause it is there It costs twice as much. It is no coincidence that the MOK started in a public campaign and already the also reached a street demonstration demanding improving public funding.

We pay so much from pocket

The state covers 72 percent of health spendingthe remaining 28 percent are added by households. The population today It spends a minimum of HUF 600 billion on health services per year, which is about five times the hospital debt. However wrote Gyula Kincses, former head of MOK the Portfolio article. According to the expert, the current rigid separation of public and private care does not work and cannot work in health care. For example, because there is not enough doctors and workers.

The doctor’s hand is tied and the patient wanders

According to Gyula Kincses, for effective care a In addition to the cooperation of public and private service providers, for reasonable use It would be necessary while another expert on the subject drew attention to the fact that the The hands of doctors are bound in private medical care.

They cannot send patients from their private system to their own state institutionMaximum suggest them other doctors – readable Balázs Rékassy from a health expert Házipatika.com. The staggering is that only that they do not have a referral rights, So they can’t do more than the recommendation. For example, if I want the lab for free, they have to ask the GP.

However, he thinks the main problem is that The system is disorganizedbecause if there were private insurance or the state contracted with private service providers to work for many years of waiting list, everyone would be good. The state because You know where you can apply for a good quality service and can account for accounting sites.

This should be to know what kind of care we will get

Unfortunately, only the state knows because it is also available to patients, public quality, professional performance index there is no. Because of Patients are equally unpredictable what they will receive in private care as in the state. It may be treated in a mischief or negligent way, for profit to be unnecessarily salted, or, due to the lack of a device, will not receive proper diagnostics or therapy.

Of course, there are high quality private careers where you can get perfect hip surgery for a lot of money.

If there was a public quality assurance system for all actors, we could seek medical attention with much more securitybe it private or public funded.

Therefore cannot operate separately on private and state

« Not only for the state and private supply systems, but slowly one of the doctors and the health professional at home, » said the director of a rural specialist office, who asked for his name to be silenced.

– The average age of doctors is 60 and the assistants are 56 years. Anyone who graduates in the world’s toughest university can be located anywhere in the world without any problems. We have lost more than 16,000 doctors since our EU accessionwhich is more than half of the current number. Knowledge went out and didn’t come back. Meanwhile, those who stay are so much the load that they burn one and a half years after the exam. And the emergency departments work with ambulance officers. An experienced, dedicated assistant team is aging and there is no supply as the underpaid professions do not go gray.

This is what the patient can do

State care began to be separated from the private in 2022. Among other things, it was forbidden to have the doctor surgery in the state institution where he was working. At first, doctors responded by directing their private patients to their colleagues, but then closed this funding loophole. Currently The treatment started in private care cannot be carried out at all in public benefits.

In practice, this means that the gynecologist states in the private office that the patient needs surgery, but the patient will then have to reach another gynecologist who will refer to the surgery to a regionally competent state care center while obviously not happy.

Of course even The same specialist can refer to the regionally competent hospital who has been visited at his private order, but only if we wait for the date before the state benefit.

According to the expert interviewed Screening tests should be done in private care because it lasts much longer in the state, but if a disease is stabbed, you can go on to the state because there is no complex service in private reducers.

Or Monthly treatment of a chronic musculoskeletal problem may be in a property in private carewhile getting into the public is harder and time consuming, but once it succeeds, the treatments will automatically follow each other, we get the next times.

Compulsion is private

Not only the patient but also the institutions can be forced to provide private care. For example, at the Rural Director -General surveyed office Private medical orders are launched with the involvement of existing specialists to maintain state care.

– After the municipality is no longer able to provide the previous grant level due to state withdrawals, we are close to bankruptcy. Our public funding remained at the 2017 level, while overhead and wage costs have increased multiple.

We need to imagine buying gasoline or food at the 2017 price.

A few weeks ago, we had to ask the state fund manager to pay the wages.

In his view, the care situation for patients will not be resolved, as long as the state refuses to spend much more than currently spend the profession in decisions such as financing, training, wages, career models.