Health care financing in turbulent global economy

World economic crisis strongly affected healthcare outlays in terms of both their level and dynamics, measured by health care expenses per capita and relation of health care expenditure to GDP. Moreover, it had a significant impact on the structure of health care outlays. The authors demonstrated that in Europe changes in health care financing being the result of a slump in the economy, were observed with a delay. In addition, the authors developed several possible future scenarios of health care financing, which are presented in the last part of the publication.