Дата публикации: 1 april 2014
This year it is going to be 20 years since the new health care system was established in Russia, as it was not until 1994 that a full-fledged compulsory health insurance (the basis for free medical care) took hold.
The introduction of compulsory health insurance program (OMS) was initiated as early as 1991, but the first three years its impact on the healthcare system was rather insignificant.