Poland still has along way to catch up with EU levels of spending on health care

To compare, the National Health Service in the U.K., which has practically not been reformed since 1948, is one of the most expensive and at the same time the worst operating systems with long queues of patients waiting for operations. According to Rzeczpospolita, all European countries spend more on their health services than Poland does. Even the poorest EU countries such as Greece and Portugal spend twice as much as Poland does. Analysts claim that the share of private sources of financing health care in Poland will have to increase since its costs are growing at an enormous speed due to new expensive technologies, as well as an the increasing number of elderly people that need to be treated. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1) A.Z.