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Current Problems in the Financing of the Czech Public Health System

The reform of the Czech public health system started in 1991. The main goals were the liquidation of the state's monopoly on health services, the creation of non-state health care that would include private facilities, and the introduction of multi-resource financing for health care that respected the principle of social solidarity.