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May 26 2004

The main goal of modernizing Russian health is to increase accessibility and quality of medical aid for wide sections of the population, the President announced at his Address to the Federal Assembly.

Guarantees of free medical aid should be widely known and understood. Standards of medical services should be developed and ratified which function everywhere in the country. Only additional medical aid and an increased level of comfort in receiving this aid should be paid for by the patient.

This will make it possible to move from an estimate principle of financing medical institutes to payment for the volume and quality of medical aid provided. And this payment should be made in accordance with the principles of compulsory insurance. At the same time, stimulus should be created for develop voluntary medical insurance.

The Government and parliament should ensure a legal base of compulsory medical insurance, state guarantees of medical aid, private medical practices, and paid services.

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«The main aim of modernising the Russian healthcare system is to ensure affordable and good-quality healthcare for broad sections of the population. This means above all that guaranteed free healthcare services should be clear and known to all. Medical treatment standards should be drawn up and approved for each type of illness, along with an obligatory list of treatment and diagnostic procedures and the minimum requirements for healthcare provision. These standards should be applied in every city, town and village in the Russian Federation, and patients should have to pay only for additional medical services and for extra comfort».
From the Annual Address to the Federal Assembly, May 26, 2004

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