The role of insurance policies in the drug pricing landscape.

Introduction: This overview paper aims at summarizing and analyzing the available literature on healthcare system organization and pricing policies of 11 European countries, comparing them to the Bulgarian pharmaceutical system. The countries were selected based on the reference basket for the pricing of pharmaceuticals in Bulgaria - Belgium, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and France.

Areas Covered: In the first part, we explore the health system models in the above-mentioned countries.