Impact of Restructuring Act of 2005 to the Healthcare in Poland
Impact of Restructuring Act of 2005 to the Healthcare in Poland

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important pillars of social and economic life is health and its proper protection and the weight of organizing the healthcare system lies with the state authorities. Polish health care system over the years underwent transformation which was the resultof intervention by governing authorities in order to resolve the current problems. Dynamically implemented changes in the functioning of health care negatively affected the entities participating in the system, which manifests in annual increase of total liabilities. The aim of the following article is to verify the effect of the first statutory attempt to optimize the debt of hospitals in Poland in the light of valid method of financing medical services, which is based on a system of insurance against the performance of their tasks.For this purpose, liabilities due and the total liabilities of the entire health sector were compared against the average length of stay in hospital and health spending in Poland.

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