_design of slovak healthcare

Slovakia has an average to poor standard of compulsory state funded healthcare and many hospitals are in debt. Unless we are at risk of health or life, we can go through Slovak hospitals as a museum and see the designer jewels. Look at the colors, inscriptions and commands.

Hospital building with polyclinic in Považská Bystrica, a north of Slovakia.

The General Health Insurance Company covers the majority of the population. Citizens are able to change insurance company at any time, but there is little competition between the insurance companies, although more recently insurance companies have attempted to attract people to their funds. There appear to be no identifiable benefits for the public in having such a choice of companies. 1)

The cork desks absorb all the information.

Trade unions strive for equal base wages for equal work regardless of the organizational form of the employer. Employers prefer avoiding competition and shortages of care personnel — especially among smaller public healthcare providers with significant budget constraints.2)

Cork table-desk— the most popular communication tool of trade unions.

In 1895, a German physicist named Wilhelm Roentgen made the discovery. X-ray technology lets doctors see straight through human tissue to examine broken bones, cavities and swallowed objects with extraordinary ease. Modified X-ray procedures can be used to examine softer tissue, such as the lungs, blood vessels or the intestines.

Flowers in the hospital.

Health insurance is mandatory for all income-earners. The government pays contributions for those citizens who are exempt for contributing like the unemployed, old age pensioners and people on long-term sickness benefit, maternity leave, job seekers, those on disability benefits.

Employers must register their employees with one of the health insurance funds when a new employee starts work. Employees pay 4 percent of their basic income into the fund, whilst employers pay 10 percent. Self-employed citizens must pay the full 14 percent contribution, which is calculated as 50 percent of the income on which they paid tax in the previous year. 3)

Family— sculpture in front of the building

…no price incentives, no competition, no price negotiations…

— review score — 1.3/5*