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Health care reform has reached epidemic proportions throughout the world. From Germany to Australia, all seem to be searching for the magic formula that will deliver high quality care at lower costs. Nowhere has this become more apparent than in the Czech Republic. While privatisation of the industrial sector led to social cohesion, the same was not true for the health care sector (Oswald 2000). In 1992, the Czech government introduced massive health system reforms in an attempt to shift its post communist delivery structure toward a Bismarck model (Roberts 2003). The resulting public-private system has been continuously modified with varying degrees of success and acceptance. By illustration, a failed effort to institute a diagnosis related groups (DRG) system, out of control health care costs, and renewed discussions of full privatisation contributed to the Czech government collapse in spring, 2009 when Prime Minister Topolanek and his cabinet were forced to resign (Stage 2010).
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Oswald, S.L., McEldowney, R. (2012). Chronicling Twenty Years of Health Reform in Czech Republic. In: Dickinson, H., Mannion, R. (eds) The Reform of Health Care. Organizational Behaviour in Health Care series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230355026_13
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