[Public health reforms in Hungary].

Abstract

Hungarian public health services are experiencing changes the purpose of which is to establish fixed and guaranteed receipt of financial resources for public health and social welfare, to entrust health insurance bodies with power to command credits, to change the mechanism of financing public health institutions. It is expected that hospitals would be financed on the basis of national system of DRGs being developed since 1986 or according to the principle of "fee-for-service". The Hungarian experience indicates that the changeover from the state system of public health to the insurance medicine requires some time.