One area where spending discipline will become increasingly important in Hungary is health care. This paper describes … the structure of the health care system, highlights outstanding weaknesses and considers ways to make financing more … stable and sustainable. The slow progress in modernising the health care system is reflected in the low efficiency of …

rate of increase over the last 20 years has been much slower than in the rest of the area. The Hungarian health system is … on containing costs but efforts to improve service delivery and health outcomes have been plagued by problems of …

among OECD countries for output efficiency: for a given level of spending outcomes fall short by around 3.5% in health care … surrounding input efficiency estimates is high for countries with the smallest scope for potential savings. Confidence intervals …