New reform is still a lot of questions: will you encourage professionals to emigrate?
Will try to unify the conditions
Evaldas Navickas, the Prime Minister’s adviser to the Prime Minister, explained that the purpose of the reform is to make medical services more accessible and to ensure that their accessibility is independent of social status. According to him, now more affluent people who can afford to pay for health care have greater opportunities to get the services they want faster. In addition, the reform aims to unify competitive conditions between the public and private medical services sector.
Does the reform be in conflict with the constitutional right to choose where to get a service, or will specialists working in public institutions who want to pay a dignified salary? Such questions were raised by the show’s listeners.
According to Navick, it is wrong to say that public sector employees earn significantly less than private, and he said, the average average of the medical staff in the field of medical staff is rapidly chasing the European average. He also claimed that people could continue to choose where to get a service in a private or public medical institution after the reform, but the funds allocated to the state’s health would be more reasonably used.
Evaldas Navickas. Photo by R. Riabov / BNS
Will vote « against »
The Legal Department has seen the possible contradiction of the reform, which stating that the Lithuanian economy is based on private ownership, freedom of economic activity and initiative, the state protects freedom of fair competition, takes care of a person’s health and provides medical services and assistance in the event of a person’s illness.
At the beginning of the week, after the deliberations, the Seimas Committee on Law and Order decided that the reform was not in conflict with the Constitution. Raimondas Šukys, a member of the Seimas owned by the Committee, stated that the draft decision would be submitted to the Seimas after the decision would be made and only then would the reform be subject to the expediency and benefit of the reform. He himself said he would vote against the reform.
For me, as a doctor, I am sad because I see that there will be no change for another four years.
« Today, the health system is obviously insufficient to ensure funds. Private institutions are forced to take a premium because their services are much higher than the state institutions. And the Ministry of Health wants services everywhere for the same price for institutions PSDF is paid by employees.
In agreement with his colleague, Vitalijus Gailius, a member of the Seimas, said the reform would worsen the current situation, as paragraph fifth of the eleventh part of the article would open the way for corruption.
J. Kalinskas / Photo by BNS
Doctors also contradict
« Does the public sector are in trouble? Yes. Is it guilty of the private sector for that? No, » said Doctor Martynas Gedmin, who is planned with more questions than he answers. According to him, not only patients but also doctors do not understand the meaning of the reform.
« It is claimed that medicine is experiencing the problem of resources, lack of public sector staff. For me as a former head of the hospital, the state controls the monopoly of inpatient services, it can increase prices if there is a lack of competitive advantage.
He emphasizes that the reform can cause private medicine, a sector that detains medical staff migrating to other countries.
« Twenty years ago, when I started studying medicine, doctors told us: You were lucky when you finish my studies. But I don’t see that it would be better now. For me, as a doctor, I see that there will be no change for four years.
