Social and financial risk protection
Social solidarity is one of the values highlighted in the Basic Law on Health (1990).
The importance of this value has increased over time and the percentage of people who
believe that health services should be free for the poor increased from 55% to 69.3%
between 2001 and 2008 (34). The percentage of people agreeing with exemptions from
payment for elderly people (70%) and disabled people (50%) has also increased in the
last seven years.
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