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Hungarian opposition pledges high-level health services
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The united opposition will ensure that everybody has access to high quality public health services if it wins the April 3 general election, representatives of the Democratic Coalition (DK), Párbeszéd, and Momentum parties told an online press conference on Monday.
Zoltán Komáromi, DK’s health spokesman, accused the government of transforming public health care into pay-for services “by stealth”, and insisted that private health care was “increasingly controlled by oligarchs and beneficiaries of the system”. The next government will have the obligation to build “a decent, state-financed system available to everybody”, he said.
Parbeszed co-leader Tímea Szabó said the “privatisation by stealth” of the health sector had started when “the social security contribution was made into a tax”. She said the principle that contributions are spent on the area they were collected for specifically should be upheld since taxes “can be spent on anything the government chooses to”. The government, she added, had in effect “built sports stadiums” using national insurance funds.
Szabó insisted that
nurses’ pay was being “kept low” with a switch-over to private health care in mind.
The opposition, she added, promised to hike nurses’ pay and restore the prestige of the profession.
IF all of these promises of the sausage coalition were to actually happen expect lots of corruption, lots of poorly working service and your taxes to double. Remember what the late UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said. “The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other peoples money to spend” Fidesz and Orban are not perfect but they are a much more desirable package than what the opposition want and what their benefactor Gyorgy Soro’s plans to do to Hungary if these leftist gain power. VOTE wisely in the election.