health spending per capita is among the lowest across the eu and only about half the eu average eur per capita in hungary compared to the eu average of eur only twothirds of health spending in hungary is publicly funded compared to nearly across the eu leaving the system highly reliant on direct outofpocket spending consequently a relatively high share of lowincome households reports unmet medical care needs due to financial reasons more than of such households face catastrophic outofpocket expenditure for health care a higher share than in most other eu countries