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Growth: While average per capita health spending in OECD countries has increased slowly since 2010, spending in Portugal has severely contracted between 2010 and 2013 in real terms.

„Share of GDP: The share of GDP allocated to health spending (excluding capital expenditure) in Portugal was 9.0% in 2013, compared with an OECD average of 8.9%. This was down from 2012 and nearly 1 percentage point below a high of 9.9% in 2009.

„ Per capita spending: Portugal spent the equivalent of USD 2482 per person on health in 2013, compared with an OECD average of USD 3453. Public sources accounted for 66% of overall health spending, well below of 73% the OECD average

The share of out-of-pocket spending has increased in Portugal by around 5 percentage points in the last decade, reaching 28% in 2013. This is well above the average across OECD countries (19%) and also higher than in a number of other southern European countries such as Spain and Italy (both at 22%) but below the level of Greece (31%). It remains relatively high compared to other European countries such as France (7%) or the United Kingdom (10%)

Greece, Italy and Portugal saw further reductions in per capita health spending in 2013 For Greece, the 2.5% drop in real terms signalled a fourth consecutive fall in health spending, leaving per capita levels at around 75% of those in 2009. Portugal and Italy have both seen health spending contract for three years in a row.

OECD Health Statistics 2015 - Country Notes Grécia link  Portugal link

«Paulo Macedo, o ministro da Saúde, é o mais inteligente, rápido e eficaz de uma linha distinta de ministros da Saúde. Não cultiva a publicidade ou a simpatia. Defende os doentes. Não há missão mais nobre.link»

Quando leio semelhante dislate escrito por um jornalista inteligente, certamente vítima da ociosidade das tripes da tuga west cost e do aparelho de propaganda do MS,  a propósito do relatório da DGS, recém publicado, sobre a Saúde dos Portugueses, imagino o Dr Paulo Macedo a merecer uma qualquer condecoração (Cavaco Silva, felizmente, já estará reformado no próximo dez de Junho) por estes anos de terror e cortes a eito a bem do défice da nação.