EHIS suggests 13.8% for unmet needs for health care due to financial reason in 2014 [ 10 ], while based on EU-SILC survey, unmet needs for medical examination due to high expenses show a decreasing trend in Hungary, 2.2%, 0.9%, 0.6%, 0.3% (from 2015 to 2018, respectively) [ 6 ].
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Unmet medical needs in ambulatory care in Hungary: forgone visits and medications from a representative population survey.
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Out-of-pocket payments show an increasing trend in Hungary since the beginning of 2007, when health care reforms were implemented with the main goal to increase co-payments for pharmaceuticals and to introduce co-payments for health care services [ 16 ] (although these fees were abolished a year later).