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Health: Study: Money for health should be directed to state and private clinics
Three quarters of Romanians want public health funds be directed both to state and private clinics, a study made by MedLife shows. According to it, essential premises for the development of a performing health system are the quality of medical staff, stable laws the state budget percentage allocated for health.
The results of the latest GfK opinion poll made upon the request of MedLife, the leader of private services in Romania, shows that in the last 12 months the penetration rate of private medical services in large towns in Romania has become equal to that of state services. One of the main reasons explaining this tendency is satisfaction for private health services, significantly higher than the satisfaction for state health services.
In this context, most people from large towns (76%) wish that public health funds and those devoted to specific national health programs should have a mixed distribution to both state and private units. The percentage is higher in the case of people who have already benefitted from private health services (80%).
Only 58% of city inhabitants in Romania know that a part of services offered by private clinics/hospitals are financed from the health insurance fund and are accessible to CNAS contribution payers. The same study shows that users of private health services are significantly more informed about these regulations than the users of state services.
The study also shows that an overwhelming part of the population would like higher transparency for the way in which health funds are allocated while 99% of people want a predictable and stable health law.
In this context, the people interviewed say the following premises are essential for the development of a performing medical system: the quality of medical staff (97%), a stable/predictable law (94%), the amount of money allocated from the state budget for health (94%).
The GfK study made upon MedLife demand was made between July 29 and August 5, 2013, on a sample of 500 persons, representative for people aged between 18 and 55 from cities in Romania with over 200,000 inhabitants and offers details about the use of medical services in private and state clinics as well as the people’s opinion about CNAS funds and the health law. The margin of error was +/- 4.4% for a confidence level of 95%.