Long-term financial sustainability of health care system in Czech republic

1 Abstract The aim of diploma thesis is searching for solution of long-term sustainability for health care financing in Czech Republic with respect to future demographic development of Czech population and with respect to development of other factors influencing income and expenditure of health care system. After introduction there is the second chapter that describes evolution and current state of Czech health care system. The third chapter deals with historical progress of income and expenses on health care in Czech Republic and adds an international comparison. The chapter four identifies main motives for future change of Czech health system financing. The chapter five shows inspiring examples how health care financing works in Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. The sixth chapter describes basic aspects, advantages and disadvantages of introducing nominal premium to Czech health insurance system. In chapter seven there is a summary of process of introducing nominal premium and results of model of future income from reformed health insurance for year of nominal premium introduction - 2015. The basic outcome of model is fact that nominal premium introduced in amount of 725 CZK per month per person can bring additional finance to health care system in amount of 31 505 bil. CZK in despite of replacing..