Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna is not in favor of lowering the premium for entrepreneurs and has announced that she will not vote for the bill. - The NFZ will not be able to bear it," she admitted. The bill is already past its second reading, and on Thursday morning the combined Health and Public Finance committees passed a resolution that they would not recommend that the Sejm reject it. The motion for rejection, once again, was made by Marcelina Zawisza.
When the Sejm debated the government draft on Wednesday, the Health Minister was absent, but when questioned by reporters she openly stated that she did not support the solution, prepared at the Finance Ministry, of a "second step" of reducing health premiums for self-employed people. As she admitted, she had discussed the issue with the Finance Minister, adding that the National Health Fund would not bear the revenue loss.
