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Dr Tadeusz Jędrzejczyk

Patients must take into account the longer queues

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published Oct. 4, 2022 09:27

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The government plans to transfer to the National Health Fund the obligation to finance all current expenses related to health protection. The state budget is to stop paying, inter alia, for vaccinations, medical rescue or highly specialized procedures. We asked dr. Tadeusz Jędrzejczyk, specialist in the field of public health, former president of the National Health Fund, currently director of the Department of Health of the Marshal's Office of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Medexpress: What do the assumptions for the changes in health financing regulations, published on September 30, mean?

Dr. Tadeusz Jędrzejczyk: It is, simply put, shifting the burden of financing tasks from the state budget directly to the budget of the National Health Fund. Also those that the NHF has financed so far only as an intermediary, because it received money for this purpose from the state budget. In other words, it means, first of all, receiving a subsidy from the state budget to the payer's budget. It is also worth noting that the state budget is to stop transferring money to the National Health Fund for the premium compensation for the uninsured. The state budget wants to save on the Fund's expen...

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