The health care system during 20 years of Ukraine’s independence remained one of the few unreformed areas of life. Today's medical system is inefficient and poorly managed as working on its own unwritten rules of the game. In practice, informal payments are a condition for receiving medical care but do not guarantee its quality. It is believed that these payments compensate physicians’ low wages. However, patients themselves decide which doctor they go to, and therapist (it is a city case) often appears not as a doctor but as a manager. In fact, today no doctor is responsible for patient treatment outcomes. Inadequate government funding is used ineffectively as allocated to support a disproportionately large infrastructure rather than actually pay for services provided. Therefore, reform in this area is only a matter of time, because society has long formed the request accordingly.
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