Quality or blandness...that's the question?
Published July 27, 2023 16:58
It can be said that the Quality Law is out of luck.
Although, on the other hand, given that this is a project that made it to the Diet and even to the Senate, it is still luckier than other projects that landed in the trash much earlier.
And this has been going on for 14 years. Yes, yes... for 14 years we have been unable to deal with the Law on Quality. It is easy to count that this problem has affected successive governments, i.e. the first government of Donald Tusk, the second government of Donald Tusk, the government of Ewa Kopacz, the government of Beata Szydło.
"Quality" in health care is being pronounced by all cases by politicians, officials, employees and employers. However, there is something about "quality" that when it "comesdown to it," politicians, officials, employers and employees claim that, after all, "it wasn'tthe point."
It is said that "health has no party colors." This is a quote from Grzegorz Schetyna, who appealed to PIS in 2019, for a united front on obtaining EU funds for health care.
This quote has been and is repeated many times in the public debate on health care.
Well, is this actually the case, we will find out on Friday?
Of course, opponents of the quality bill, which was vetoed by the Senate, claim that it is actually introducing "blandness."
This leads to another question that we must inevitably ask ourselves, and that is "Is there such a law that would be free from doubt, those to whom this law is addressed"? I personally do not know of such laws. It is always the case that in connection with the entry of new regulations, we lawyers and not only lawyers, contest legal solutions point out inaccuracies or doubts.
On the other hand, the law is the result of an evolving approach to values.
The Code of Hammurabi - one of the oldest long texts and one of the earliest examples of the practical application of talionic law - may seem brutal and cruel to contemporaries. However, it is important to know that in its time it was considered extremely modern. Rightly so, because some of the legal solutions included in it are still in force today and form the elementary basis of a just system.
It should be no different in this situation.
One can certainly point out at length the shortcomings of the legislation whose fate will be decided by the Sejm on July 28. In my opinion, however, the question that should be asked before this vote should be even different than the one asked at the beginning - "Is it better to pass a law that we can't pass oo 14 years and amend it for the next 14 years? "Is it better to pass a law that we can't pass oo 14 years and spend the next 14 years correcting and improving it, or to throw it in the trash again and start all over again?".
I just have this concern that maybe the next few years will pass, and we will all face a situation where "quality" will continue to remain just a platitude and will continue to be conjugated by all cases. It will only be "blandness"...







