In 2016, industrial robots won the presidential election of the world’s largest economy for Donald Trump. No, artificial intelligence has not yet reached a level where it can consciously make decisions on its own (including in the field of politics), nor have concerned activists influenced R2D2[1] or its more primitive …

Six years after the enthusiastic beginning, EKIP is in a new phase of its development. In 2011, we started as a blog of young economists, political scientists, lawyers, as a gathering place for the ideas of future policy experts. Today, they are already actively participating in discussions about the shape of the market, the state and the economic future of the country…

This text is an analysis of the government's health care program for the period 2017-2021, published on 02.08.2017 on the website of the Council of Ministers here. Prevention and Prevention: The over-financing of hospital care in the country has created the prerequisites for heavy lobbying in the formation of the budget of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). The costs …

What is the problem with medicines? The problems in Bulgarian healthcare are not only with medicines. The problem of the entire system is actually the inefficient spending of funds, which is getting worse every year. The second problem is that since the establishment of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) until today, its budget has been growing by an average of about 7% per …

One of the hot topics that is being discussed on the agenda of the Ministry of Health, the National Health Insurance Fund and the Parliament is chemotherapy drugs and clinical pathways for oncological diseases. Why is the topic important? One of the largest budget items of the National Health Insurance Fund concerns the treatment of oncological diseases. The budget part is heavy, due to the fact that …

In the last few days, there has been talk about the recommendations of the European Commission (EC) regarding the 2017 European Semester and the report on the progress of structural reforms in Bulgaria. In the section "Healthcare", the report emphasizes the following main problems of healthcare in the country: limited access, insufficient funding and poor efficiency. It is important to …

American university campuses have been turned into battlefields – masked men chase inconvenient lecturers with batons, far-left students boycott the “patriarchy”, administrations ban “offensive to minorities” Halloween costumes of Indian warriors and Mexican musicians. The property of youth conservative groups is being destroyed, radical professors incite students to attack their colleagues, and …