Declining Health-Care Systems

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The paper explains that countries on a path of economic transition begin with price liberalization, followed by a stabilization policy involving an attempt to impose a tight monetary and fiscal policy. The paper discusses the decline of the free health-care systems in both Romania and Bulgaria. The paper cites some atrocities that have happened in Romania and as a result of these atrocities, positive steps have been taken to improve the health-care in Romania. The paper explains that in Bulgaria, patients cannot afford to fill prescriptions because the low wages make it unaffordable. In conclusion, the writer explains that the minimum wage in these countries fell below the poverty line. The writer states that as a result of this, the minimum wage has lost its function as an anchor of the social protection system.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Medical Care
- Romania
- Bulgaria
Historically
Conclusion
Bibliography

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"In the second case, local health authorities, faced with growing popular discontent over the crumbling medical care system, have pledged to find a quick answer to the problem of the dead babies, who were between one month and two years old and were abandoned at the Cluj hospital. "Both cases have sharply highlighted the need for comprehensive health reform in Romania, which, along with neighboring Bulgaria, has the worst health-care system in the former Communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe. "In Romania and Bulgaria, health care is in theory free and guaranteed to everyone. The reality is that most services must be paid for by a fairly formalized system of cash gifts, tips and outright bribes -- a practice that started in the Communist days and has not changed since the advent of the free-market economy."

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