Constitutional right to access healthcare services financed from public funds after the introduction of the hospital “network” (comments on the rationality of the legislator)

Abstract

This study attempts to answer the question to what extent the assumptions and objectives of the reform of functioning and financing of hospital treatment, introduced in 2017, support the con-stitutional right to access publicly-funded healthcare services. Over two years of operation, hospital networks induced to assess to what extent the instruments used by the legislator in the context of diagnosed problems in health care and the assumed goals of the legislator from the point of view of its rationality proved to be adequate. The experience of medical entities to date, as well as the re-port of the Supreme Audit Office announced in mid-2019 the functioning of the new healthcare ser-vices security system justify negative assessments of its effects and demands for necessary changes.