The health care system is becoming more expensive, so no form of financing can meet all needs. Despite great budgetary pressures, Croatia continues to provide its citizens with access to publicly funded health services, where the scope of rights paid from compulsory insurance is extremely large and includes most services. In Croatia, the health care system is financed from the salaries of employees (the contribution is 15.5%) and from the state budget (in the Republic of Croatia it is 7.4% of GDP, or 1,241 euros per capita). The share of covering health costs from private sources is increasing (23%). The quality of health care is difficult to comprehensively analyze. Some measurable and objective parameters are life expectancy at birth, standardized mortality rates from cancer, then from cardiovascular disease, infant mortality rate, infant mortality rate, perinatal mortality rate, and maternal mortality. Most of these parameters are still unfavorable and indicate poorer health status of the population of Croatia compared to the EU. These indicators are in line with the lower allocation for health care per capita. In addition to the responsibility of the health system for such an unfavorable situation, there are responsibilities of other segments of social life, and effective public policy must act on the wider social context without which there is no improvement in health care or health in Croatia.