The government, contrary to last week's announcements, will not take up the draft amendment to the Law on Health Benefits, which assumes changes in hospitality. When on November 5 the item - extremely important, even fundamental - was not on the agenda of the Council of Ministers (despite the fact that it had been announced personally by Prime Minister Donald Tusk), the Health Minister said that it had not fallen, but had not been included at all, because the project "came out" from the Ministry too late. Now, however, there is no doubt - the item, on hospital reform, has fallen off the agenda.
The reason? Controversy. The Ministry of Health, after public consultations, supplemented the draft with provisions for public hospitals run as commercial companies, including an item providing for the possibility of merging SP ZOZs with companies. Immediately there were protests, an uproar - much of it politically driven - with an afterthought: - They will privatize hospitals.
And although on Thursday the Health Minister explained, during a meeting with jour...
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