The list of proposals includes raising the health premium, charging not only the insured, but also the employer (Poland is, as the report's authors point out, the only European country with an insurance system in which the employer does not pay any health premium for its employees), but also increasing the raking power of "sin taxes," including excise taxes on alcohol and cigarettes or... raising the retirement age.
Experts from the Warsaw School of Economics estimate that the projected funding gap in the National Health Service between 2025 and 2027 will be PLN 111 billion. This is a huge amount, in addition, health has to compete more and more strongly for budget funds with, for example, defense spending. The availability of services is deteriorating, which is the result of the leanness of public spending on the ...
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