Özet:

Health expenditures in Turkey has been continuously increasing due to various factors such as chronic diseases, expensive and rapidly developing technologies, gradually aging population, easy access to services, etc. The finance of health expenditures is generally covered by taxes, social security and cash payments. Private insurances by supporting social insurances and social insurance payments are financing health expenditures of Social Security Institution. Social Security Institution is facing with difficulties to find sufficient resources for the finance of health expenditures, and should make necessary arrangements to improve private health insurances. This study gives informative explanations about required arrangements to improve private health insurances, and emphasize how applications of private health insurances increase their profit while decreasing health expenditures.

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