Over one half of Czechs believe that everything should be free in the India children's health 'ignored' ...
Open heart first for Afghanistan ... health care. Health Minister Tomas Julinek (the Civic Democratic Party, ODS) has failed to convince even the electorate of his own party about the positive aspects of the payments.
Two-thirds of them are of the view that the fees do not resolve anything or are basically wrong, MfD writes. Women, people with lower education and leftist voters tend to be more critical of the measure introduced at the beginning of the year. No Communist voter shares the view that the fees have changed the relationship between the doctor and the patient for the better as claimed by the government. People with higher education believe three times more often than those with basic education that the fees have reduced squandering of drugs and abuse of health care. Every other person over 55 believes that the fees have no influence on the relationship, while among the younger, this view is only held by every third person. Doctor Roman Flasar said the patient-doctor relationship had changed thanks to the fees. "People have started watching more doctors, which is good," Flasar said. Within the government public finance reform, patients must pay 30 crowns per visit to a surgery and the same sum for each item on a prescription as well as 60 crowns for a day in hospital and 90 crowns fro after hours treatment. Health insurance companies will return to people what they will pay in excess of the 5000-crown annual limit for the fees and cash payments for medicines. This measure is to protect chronically ill patients and the elderly who must often see doctors. Czech patients paid over one billion crowns in regulatory fees during the first three months and health insurance companies' expenditures on drugs have fallen by one-fifth, which has saved some 2.5 billion crowns. ($1 = 16.267 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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