Households in Europe bear 15% of health-care costs, with stark national gaps
Out-of-pocket health payments make up roughly 15% of total health spending in the European Union, EU statistics show. Across 34 European countries, the share varies widely. In Luxembourg, households paid just 8.5% of health-care costs, while in Bulgaria that figure reached 35.5%. Higher costs tend to hit Eastern and Southern Europe hardest. Countries like Latvia,…