[FINANCIAL AND LEGAL GUARANTEEING OF MEDICAL INSURANCE IN UKRAINE].

The objective of the research is to study the main financial and legal problems of medical insurance in Ukraine and the search for the ways of its improvement. The authors have used general scientific, special and legal methods in the process of writing the scientific article. Thus, the system method was used to study medical insurance as a type of social insurance; the structural - for studying the types of medical services provided by medical insurance; functional - to establish the subject of compensation for damage according to the results of insurance claims and to reveal its powers; comparative and legal - for the analysis of international and national theories that define the basis for organizing medical insurance and the sources of funding medical services. The authors of the article have focused on the fact that nowadays the socio-economic state of the state does not allow for providing an effective mechanism for the protection of health and medical care to the population at the expense of the funds of the existing Fund of Compulsory State Social Insurance. It has been indicated that the increase in funding for medical services and their quality within the health care is possible through the development of both voluntary and compulsory medical insurance by creating a special fund. The authors have offered to create a separate Health Insurance Fund by allocating a share of the total social contribution, which is directed to the obligatory state health insurance with the gradual transformation of this part into a separate payment of exceptionally the goal.