ABSTRACT
At the same time, the health care system has been essentially unable to cope with the upsurge in problems – indeed, a breakdown of the system itself has begun. Given a lack of proper organisation and financial provision, the first hasty attempts to introduce market elements into the system of providing medical care, the acceptance of the innovation of medical insurance (compulsory and voluntary) and the development of private medicine have all merely led to a deterioration in the situation. The unstable administration and functioning of health care has been intensified by the fact that, over the ten years from 1990, the Ministry was headed by eight different people.
