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Cumhurbaşkanlığı Strateji ve Bütçe Başkan Yardımcısı Yılmaz Tuna:
“Sağlık Harcamaları 100 Milyar TL’den 2 Katı Artışla

200 Milyar TL’ye Yaklaşan Bir Artış Gösterdi”

2019 yılının ilk TÜSAP Vizyon Toplantısı, Sağlık Finansmanı ana
teması ile Medipol Üniversitesinin ev sahipliğinde yapıldı. Sağlık har-
camaları gündemiyle yapılan toplantıda Cumhurbaşkanlığı Strateji ve
Bütçe Başkan Yardımcısı Yılmaz Tuna, 2003 yılından günümüze sağlık
harcamalarının iki kat artan bir gelişim gösterdiğini belirtti.

Vice President of Presidency Strategy and Budget, Yılmaz Tuna:
“ Health expenditures increased to approximately 200 Billion TL from 100 Billion TL”

The first TÜSAP vision meeting of 2019 was hosted by velopment of total health expenditures, including public
Medipol University with the main theme of health finan- and private , between 2003 – 2017, we see that health ex-
cing. Vice President of Presidency Strategy and Budget, penditures in excess of 192 Billion TL with today’s prices.
Yılmaz Tuna has stated that health expenditures have Yılmaz Tuna stated that Since 2003, the health expen-
progressively increased as twice since 2003, at the meeting ditures increased by 2 times than 100 billion TL, indi-
which was health with the agenda of health expenditures. cating an increase of 200 billion TL, and said that the
The leaders of health sector met at the İstanbul Me- proportion of health expenditures to GDP was 9 percent
dipol University for IX. TÜSAP Vision Meeting, on Fri- in OECD countries and 4.3 in Turkey. However, Tuna
day, March 1, 2019. ‘Health Financing’ was discussed at who pointed out that the continuity of this low rate below
the first TÜSAP meeting of 2019, which Vice President of the OECD average is not possible, sorted the reasons as;
Presidency Strategy and Budget, Yılmaz Tuna attended as increase in city hospitals, increase in medical staff and
main speaker. expenditures, developments in health Technologies, inc-
In the meeting which health expenditures stand out as rease in expenditure of treatments, dissemination of in-
headline, Vice President of Presidency Strategy and Bud- dividual treatment methods and increasing in population
get Yılmaz Tuna, expressed that considering monetary de- rate of elder people.

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