Today, the health care expenditure takes more then 10% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP, or the total wealth of a country expressed in euro) in Belgium. Approximate we can speak of 37 billion expenses for health care, on a GDP of 370 billion euros in 2011.

Like elsewhere our healthcare system suffers from the financial-economical crisis. In many countries, as in ours there have been fiscal measures to limit the growth of this sector. Such a purely budgetary approach holds a risk that the people who are in need of healthcare do not receive it.