Русская версияThe spending per capita based on the purchasing power and price level is only lower in Turkey, Poland, Slovakia and Korea, according to the report.
Norway, Switzerland and Luxembourg that top the standings spend on health care three times more than the Czech Republic.
The overall spending on health care includes both public money and payments by health insurers, ministries and regions as well private payments, that is cash payments by patients and their private insurance schemes.
Private spending in the Czech Republic is almost the lowest of all OECD countries.
Its share is 12.1 percent, compared with 25.6 percent in Slovakia and 54.2 in the United States, the highest figure in the OECD.
The share of health care spending in GDP in the Czech Republic is also lower than in a majority of the 30 OECD countries. It stood at 6.9 percent in 2006 and 6.5 percent last year. Only Poland (6.2 percent) and Korea (6.4 percent) had a lower share.
Slovakia's share was close to the Czech Republic's.
The share of health care spending in overall GDP, however, does not say anything about the effectiveness of the money spent.
Milan Kubek, president of the Czech Doctors' Chamber, says Czech health care is a miracle of effectiveness. It attains a comparable level for less money which, he says, is at the cost of the medical employees' salaries.
(Ceske Noviny)
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