Nominally, we are paying more and more for services, but accessibility is declining. The median waiting time for an AOS appointment in urgent cases has increased by nearly 40 percent. - According to the Health Care Financing Monitor, which was unveiled Thursday.
According to Lukasz Kozlowski, chief economist of the Federation of Polish Entrepreneurs, which has been preparing quarterly editions of the Monitor for the past four years, one of the reasons for the decline in accessibility is that for years health care spending has been settling at the minimum required by law, although the system's needs are much higher, if only because health needs are growing. - So we see the regularity that expenditures for a given year are planned at the statutory level, and then during the year adjustments are made to the NFZ financial pl...
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