Editing Health care reform (section)

===Russia===
{{Further|Healthcare in Russia}}
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia embarked on a series of reforms intending to deliver better healthcare by compulsory medical insurance with privately owned providers in addition to the state run institutions. According to the OECD<ref>[http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2006doc.nsf/LinkTo/NT000076DA/$FILE/JT03220416.PDF OECD: HEALTHCARE REFORM IN RUSSIA: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS (2006)]</ref> none of 1991-93 reforms worked out as planned and the reforms had in many respects made the system worse. Russia has more physicians, hospitals, and healthcare workers than almost any other country in the world on a per capita basis,<ref>{{cite book|last=Field|first=M. G.|title=The health and demographic crisis in post-Soviet Russia: a two-phase development in "Russia's Torn Safety Nets", edited by Field M. G., Twigg J. L. (eds)|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=2000:11–42}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Highlights on Health in the Russian Federation|publisher =World Health Organization|date=November 1999|url=http://www.euro.who.int/document/e72504.pdf|access-date=2007-12-27|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070729132728/http://www.euro.who.int/document/e72504.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-07-29}}</ref> but since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the health of the Russian population has declined considerably as a result of social, economic, and lifestyle changes. However, after [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]] became president in 2000 there was significant growth in spending for public healthcare and in 2006 it exceed the pre-1991 level in real terms.<ref>{{cite web|title=Public Spending in Russia for Health Care: Issues and Options|url=http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTRUSSIANFEDERATION/Resources/PublicSpendingInRussiaforHealthCare.pdf|website=Word Bank|access-date=30 September 2014}}</ref>  Also life expectancy increased from 1991 to 1993 levels, infant mortality rate dropped from 18.1 in 1995 to 8.4 in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/pril.php|title=Russian State Institute of Demography}}</ref> Russian Prime Minister [[Vladimir Putin]] announced a large-scale health care reform in 2011 and pledged to allocate more than 300 billion rubles ($10 billion) in the next few years to improve health care in the country.<ref>{{cite web|title=Five Capitalist Democracies & How They Do It|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/countries/|website=PBS|access-date=30 September 2014|date=2008}}</ref>