International Conference on Eurasian Economies
17-18 September 2013 – St. Petersburg, RUSSIA
Paper detail
Paper ID : 630
Status : Paper published
Language : English
Topic : Sectoral Analyses
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Aysegül Kaptanoğlu
Session : 7A Environment & Regional Economies
Opinions on the Political Economy of the New Turkish Healthcare System
Opinions on the Political Economy of the New Turkish Healthcare System
- Prof. Dr. Aysegül Kaptanoğlu (Trakya University, Türkiye)
Abstract
Turkish health care system is going on health care transitions nowadays. Fundamental role of government in providing, financing and managing public services, including health care are changed. Health care marketers insist that competition and aggressive management will raise health care productivity. Health economist suggests that health is a public service and has a value. The Health Care System in Turkey is financed by public funds, compulsory insurance premiums and delivered (90%) by The Ministry of Health (MoH) that also manages the system. For the sustainability of universal access to health care special insurance programs according the rule of political economy should be built. Poor and severe ill people who cannot work and elderly may not get access to public medical insurance. So, for contributing to the nationwide public health care system rich people could give some extra insurance premium and obtain additional private insurance as well. Referral chain might be established in the country in between primary, secondary and tertiary care.
JEL codes: A12, H41, A11
Kaptanoğlu, Aysegül (2013). "Opinions on the Political Economy of the New Turkish Healthcare System" in Proceedings of International Conference of Eurasian Economies 2013, pp.244-247, St. Petersburg, RUSSIA.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36880/C04.00630
Session 7A: Environment & Regional Economies
