Aleksandrova О.А. Crisis of Russian Healthcare: 'Excess Perpetration' or Pre-programmed Outcome? Economic revival of Russia. 2021. No. 1(67). Pp. 63-71.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic further exacerbated the issue of the situation in the health care system and the directions for its further reform. An analysis of the transformation of the health care system based on the study of regulatory and other documents, as well as data from sociological studies witnesses that such results of reform as a sharp reduction in the availability of quality medical care, a shortage of medical personnel, etc. are not a consequence of the excess of the implementer, but are programmed by the course of health care reform, which was a purposeful and consistent process, the customer of which was international financial organizations and transnational capital. The article examines the problems caused by the significant underfunding of health care, as well as the numerous institutional contradictions generated by the reform. It is concluded that the reforms that led to such results became possible due to, first, the reformers ignoring the opinion of the medical community and, secondly, the lack of the necessary level of solidarity in Russian society