Several countries in Eastern Europe are considering policies to encourage private insurers to sell supplementary health insurance coverage. (25). Slovenia has one of the most well developed private insurance systems, funding 14·6 % of total health care expenditures in 2001; while Albania’s market funded 12% of its health expenditures in that year. In Central Asia, Turkmenistan has a private insurance market which accounts for 7% of its total expenditures for health (NHA 2001).