OEP Set For Two Consecutive Years Of Profit

Hungary's national health insurance fund (OEP) is set to make a profit of up to HUF10bn (US$67mn) in 2008, according to health minister Tamás Székely. Although this suggests that 2007's positive budget balance was not a blip - following over a decade of consecutive losses - BMI is concerned that improved financial management within the healthcare sector may not necessarily be providing patients with a better service or improved access to medicines, despite Székely's claims that budget surpluses may be reinvested to provide additional funding for clinics and

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