Former Health Minister, Alexandru Rafila, has emphasized the need to change the way health services are paid in order to improve competitiveness between the public and private sectors.

Rafila said that the bottleneck in the settlement of medical services at CNAS affects competitiveness between public and private hospitals. He argued that performance in the health system should be encouraged and that uniform payment for services would create fair competition. He also stressed the importance of developing private health insurance, which can bring new funds into the system.