The aim of this paper is to investigate the legal aspects of public services with a special focus on the healthcare systems of the Republic of Croatia, Slovenia and Austria, and to point out the necessity of implementing a complete reorganization of management, financing of healthcare and improving the quality of healthcare services, while optimizing the offer of services and rationalizing costs with regard to revenue potential. Although all the efforts of the countries regarding the provision of equally accessible and high-quality health services for all are based on the completely justified need to protect the fundamental human rights and dignity of every human being, due to the influence of the different socio-economic conditions in which each country is located, their implementation in national legislation almost impossible. The central focus of the implemented reforms in the Austrian healthcare system was primarily oriented towards strengthening coordination and promoting cooperation between different levels of government, both in the planning segment and in the business decision-making and financing segments. The excessive utilization of hospital capacities and the imbalance in the distribution of resources between the hospital and ambulatory sectors of health care have resulted in an enormous increase in expenditures with the same or even worse level of quality of services provided, but also an increasing awareness of the need to prevent diseases in the form of strengthening the primary health care system. Increasing expenditures in the health sector of the Republic of Croatia and Slovenia, along with the decreasing efficiency of the health system, lead to the conclusion that the management of public goods by the public sector is not at a satisfactory level, especially in the segment of monitoring public spending and the effects of the health system, and the existing models of the health care system , in the absence of radical changes in strategic goals and principles, are unsustainable in the long term.