Patients will have more options after breaking the monopoly of the National Health Insurance House, and things work much better where there is competition, emphasized the Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete.
“It is an ongoing debate at the moment. I want us to break the monopoly of the National Health Insurance House. It is absolutely necessary for this system to be able to develop at the same pace as other systems in the European Union. At the moment there are negotiations, there are debates, we are taking examples from other countries, I do not want to invent hot water. In many European countries the systems work with several health insurance houses, but not only European ones. (…) I wish we could adapt those models in Romania as well. I think that this year we can start this endeavor”said Alexandru Rogobete, on Friday, on the occasion of a working visit to the new ATI Neonatology section of the Emergency Clinical Hospital for Children “Marie Curie”, writes agerpres.
In other news, the minister stated that the Ministry of Health’s budget for 2026 is still being worked on and estimated that it will be bigger than last year’s.
Last week, Alexandru Rogobete reaffirmed that he intends to break the monopoly of the National Health Insurance House and introduce a competitive system, in which several insurance houses, both public and private, will operate. The measure is considered essential in the framework of the reform of the way of financing the health system in Romania.
Alexandru Rogobete showed that the proposal is based on models already working in other European states, such as France, Spain, Belgium or Germany, but also outside the European Union, giving Israel as an example.
“In all these countries there are several health insurance services. Whether they are in the public regime, whether they are in the private regime, whether they are complementary, in the public-private regime, it is obvious that people will have a choice, not necessarily according to the pricing, but according to the services they offer. There will be competition between the Houses, which in any system leads to development”, the Minister of Health also said.
