Lower house debating amendments to health law

The lower house of Parliament has approved the abolition of direct payments in health care, with the exception of a 90 crown fee for emergency visits. A 30 crown fee for prescriptions introduced by the former center-right government has likewise been scrapped. Deputies will also debate the cabinet’s proposal to scrap an article of the law which would force doctors to issue exclusively electronic prescriptions as of next year, on the grounds that many doctors outside of the big cities are technically not prepared for such a move. The health commission of the Chamber of Deputies has suggested that this duty could be postponed by three years instead of being scrapped.