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Senate: Huge health debt requires a lot of funding, not savings

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published Dec. 15, 2022 14:46

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On Thursday, the Senate will decide on the amendment to the act on the professions of doctor and dentist, the entry into force of which threatens to reduce health care funds by PLN 13 billion next year. – I am ashamed that the Ministry of Health came up with the draft of this act – said the chairwoman of the Senate Health Committee, Beata Małecka-Libera, during the debate. The vote on the Senate resolution is to take place in the Sejm on Thursday evening.

The debate on the Senate's resolution took place on Wednesday afternoon. Presenting the position of the Health Committee, which was in favor of rejecting the act in its entirety, Beata Małecka Libera emphasized that its sense can and should be reduced to seeking savings due to the difficult situation of the state budget. At the same time, she pointed out that health care - due to the continuous high level of underfunding and the health debt accumulated during the pandemic - is the last area in which these savings should be sought. – The very idea of ​​looking for savings in the budget of the Ministry of Health seems bizarre at...

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