Romanian Health System: Lessons Still to Learn

Objective: Even if the Romanian Health System has registered some notable improvementsover the last 20 years, this article aims to prove that it still has certain areas to reform in order toassure the right amount of healthcare a system should provide. Hypothesis: The hypothesis on whichthis article relies on is that the system is not yet characterised by results, competition, and efficiency.Methodology: To sustain the hypothesis, different socio-economic arguments have been brought.Also indicators for the European average and Romanian health system have been compared, toemphasize the current state-of-facts and time series of Romanian indicators have been analyzed indifferent contexts to extract a more objective result of changes in values. Results: Even though theRomanian Health System has known different types of reforms ever since the fall of the communism,the system still denotes a lack of success in providing proper healthcare for all its citizens.