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The aim of the paper is to investigate the structure of health care financing systems in OECD countries. In the theoretical part the following areas of health care financing are discussed: fund collection, fund pooling and provider reimbursement. The empirical part analyses trends in health care expenditures and institutional arrangements in health care financing in OECD countries. Health care financing systems in these countries vary in terms of financing sources, fund and risk pooling mechanisms as well as reimbursement systems. Though, reforming processes in the last decades leads to convergence of health care financing arrangements.