4th June 2004
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Healthcare reform plan update: as long as you're wallet's healthy, you'll live
The Health Ministry has sent its draft project of a bill concerning the restructuring of the health sector to other ministries for consultation.
The Health Ministry has sent its draft project of a bill concerning the restructuring of the health sector to other ministries for consultation. Jerzy Hausner has revealed that the works are especially difficult due to the need to compromise the huge gap between need and financial ability. According to the draft bill, citizens would have to pay zł.2 for each visit to a family doctor. This idea, according to most experts though, has no chance of being accepted as it goes against a basic need that cannot be limited in any way. The second service that would have to be financed from patients' pockets would be visits to specialists, at a cost of between zł.3-5 a throw. A cost of zł.10 has been mooted for a visit to a hospital, regardless of the length of stay. No final decision has yet been announced concerning the proposed legislation. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1) A.K.
From Warsaw Business Journal
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