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12.12.2007 - Petition against fees in Czech health care launched
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"We are calling on Czech citizens to refuse to pay the fees until the Czech Constitutional Court makes the final decision," reads the petition passed to CTK.
The fees are part of the government's public finance reform that the Chamber of Deputies passed against the will of the left in summer.
The opposition has filed a complaint against the reform with the Constitutional Court.
The petition has been signed by some 60 people, including former Czechoslovak foreign minister Jiri Dienstbier, former Social Democrat (CSSD) health minister David Rath, CSSD deputy chairman Bohuslav Sobotka, Communist (KSCM) deputy chairman Jiri Dolejs, senior Greens official Matej Stropnicky, film director Vera Chytilova and actress and former deputy for Freedom Union-DEU Tana Fischerova.
It was also signed by chairwoman of the Association for the Protection of Patients Vladimira Boskova, chairman of the Foundation Charter 77 Frantisek Janouch, editor-in-chief of Literarni noviny (Literary magazine) Jakub Patocka, chairman of the CMKOS umbrella trade union and CSSD senator Milan Stech, chairwoman of Trade Union in the Civil Service Alena Vondrova, philosopher Erazim Kohak, historian Karel Jech and writer Eva Kanturkova.
Rath, a deputy chairman of the Chamber of Deputies health committee, said the patients who would refuse to pay the fees, would not be punished.
In theory, the doctor who will not collect the fees may be punished, Rath said.
However, he can say that the patient had simply refused to pay the fee, Rath said.
"There is no penalty for the patient who does not pay the fee," he added.
The health facility may try to exact the fee, but it not its duty, Rath said.
Czechs will pay 30 crowns per visit to a surgery and the same sum for each item on a prescription as from next year.
They will pay 60 crowns for a day in hospital and 90 crowns per visit to an emergency surgery.
Health insurance companies will return to people what they will pay in excess of the 5000 crowns annual limit for the fees.
($1=17.747 Czech crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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