Healthcare Reform in the Republic of Georgia

Over the course of the past eight years, the Republic of Georgia's health system developed a unique approach towards health reform and has experienced great success so far. Formerly one of the most dysfunctional and corrupt countries to receive care in Europe, Georgia has emerged as the leading health system in the sphere of post-Soviet powers. Georgia broke the old reform paradigm of gradual change and instead introduced bold, market-based reforms in a short time period that the country's healthcare system largely hadn't seen before. This book showcases the experiences of two leading healthcare reformers from Georgia, former Minister of Economics Kakha Bendukidze and former Minister of Health Andria Urushadze. Michael D. Tanner from the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. also contributes his external view on the Georgian reforms. These experts' experiences written down in this publication shall serve as a roadmap for policymakers to enact successful healthcare reform in Eastern Europe and beyond.