THE DEMOGRAPHIC FUTURE TREND AND THE SUSTAINABILITY OF SOCIAL HEALTH INSURANCE SYSTEM IN ROMANIA
Abstract:
This study aims at highlighting the theoretical aspects involved in ensuring a sustainable
health insurance system that can be influenced by current demographic evolution in our country. Along
with the presentation of demographic forecasting for the demographic quota of the working age by 2025,
the potential consequences regarding the sustainability and ethics of this demographic development are
analyzed. Thus, given that 66% of the Unique National Health Insurance Fund’s income are based on
the contribution of employers and employees, the decrease by more than 1 million people from the
working age quota can cause major disruptions. There are two possibilities of future evolution, cost
restraints situation, in which the sustainability of the health insurance system is preserved, or the
negative situation of inability to cover costs due to an aging population
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