Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Avxentyev Nikolay Author-Name-First: Nikolay Author-Name-Last: Avxentyev Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Author-Name: Nazarov Vladimir Author-Name-First: Vladimir Author-Name-Last: Nazarov Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Author-Name: Sisigina Natalya Author-Name-First: Natalya Author-Name-Last: Sisigina Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: The creation of a unified national health system Abstract: In many ways, the year 2019 was supposed to be a watershed for Russia’s healthcare system. This was the final year of the ambitious six-year program set forth in the May 2012 Executive Orders of the President, to be followed by even more substantial transformations under the new national project ‘Healthcare’. Meanwhile, the burgeoning unified national health system was continually evolving, its goal being to provide the entire nation with guaranteed equal rights to medical care. Classification-JEL: I1, I15, I18, Keywords: Russian economy, health care system Creation-Date: 2020 Revision-Date: 2020 Length: 11 pages File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/ppaper/ppaper-2020-1056.pdf File-Format: application/pdf File-Function: Revised Version, 2020 Handle: RePEc:gai:ppaper:ppaper-2020-1056