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19th March, 2024
Hungary last in EU on healthcare spending
Hungary spent less on healthcare as a percentage of GDP than every other EU member state in 2022, data from Eurostat reveal.
The government spent the equivalent of 4.4% of GDP on healthcare and 5.1/% on education.
The government spends an unusually large amount on the operation of the state and bureaucracy, which has not been reduced since 2010.
Hospital wards have to be shut down, basically due to a shortage of nurses, but in many places due to a lack of doctors as well, according to healthcare specialist Erzsébet Pusztai.
There are long waiting lists for diagnostics in outpatients healthcare, as there are not enough doctors to evaluate the tests, she said.
In 2022 the government spent the equivalent of 4.8% of GDP on public finances, 0.8% less than the EU average, putting Hungary in eighth place.
Hungarian wages and salaries continue to be viewed as low as compared to Western countries, so it is possible that even if the West is declining, Hungary is still far from the standards of the declining West, observed political scientist Tibor Attila Nagy.
According to Eurostat data, only Croatia, Estonia, Cyprus, Malta and Ireland spend less on social care as a percentage of GDP than Hungary.
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Sources regularly consulted, with abbreviations used in text: Népszabadság (N); Magyar Hírlap (MH); Világgazdaság (VG); Napi Gazdaság (NG); Magyar Nemzet (MN); Népszava (Nsz); Kossuth Rádió news (KR); nightly TV news (TV).
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