The Semashko model is a single-payer healthcare system where healthcare is free for everyone. Unlike the Beveridge model, where national healthcare is funded through special taxation of the population, the healthcare in the Semashko model is funded from the national budget.
The Bolsheviks began to establish universal healthcare as soon as they came to power in late 1917. The system is named after Nikolai Semashko, a Soviet People's Commissar for Healthcare.[1] The model is largely continued in Russia, most other post-Soviet states[2] (exceptions are: Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and the Baltic states) and some other formerly Soviet-aligned states (such as North Korea[3] and Cuba[4]) is regarded as one of the most influential ones.[5]
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