Heger: increasing patient co-financing to be the last step in reforms

Increasing patient co-financing will be the very last step in reforms, Health Minister Leoš Heger has told Czech Television. Co-financing is currently at 17% and should not exceed 20%. Mr Heger said that the reform begins with health insurance companies; the package of 25 reform measures ensures that insurance companies with poor financial management will have to merge. The government is to discuss the first of Mr Heger’s proposals on Wednesday, an amendment to the public health insurance act to increase the daily cost of hospitalisation from 60 to 100 crowns per patient.