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In the Senate about the "jump to the NFZ cash"

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published Oct. 18, 2022 06:29

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On Monday, the Senate Health Committee discussed the assumptions of the bill on the professions of doctor and dentist, which provides for the transfer to the National Health Fund of financing tasks, which are currently under the responsibility of the state budget. Deputy Minister of Health Maciej Miłkowski admitted that the government bill will be processed separately, without public consultations.

The agenda of the Senate Health Committee sounded a bit shocking, because in the first point it was written: Jump to the NHF cash register. Deputy Minister Maciej Miłkowski began his speech with this, stating that when he received the invitation, he was convinced that the invitation was issued by "some newspaper" and not a parliamentary committee.

However, apart from the formula, the subject of the meeting corresponded to the actual state in one hundred percent, because the project prepared by the Ministry of Health transfers the financing of, among others, highly specialized services, medical rescue, medicines for seniors 75+ and for pregnant women, and preventive vaccinations from the state budget to the National Health Fund. It also provides for a one-off replenishment of the COVID-19 Counteracting Fund from the National Health Fund supplementary fund.

At the beginning of the meeting, the chairman of the Senate Health Committee, Beata Małecka-Li...

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