Ukraine's Health Ministry has proposed to finance the medical insurance system from general tax, Deputy Health Minister Pavlo Kovtoniuk said at a press conference on Wednesday.

He said that general taxes are paid by all citizens living in the country, including those who are working in the shadows.

"We believe that the best way for Ukraine is to use general tax as a tool to collect funds from citizens," he said.

As reported, the switch to insurance medicine in Ukraine will start in 2017 and will last until 2020. The transformation starts with the launch of family medicine of the European model on the basis of existing primary chain of the Ukrainian healthcare system.