Opposition vows to inject extra € 3.4 billion into Hungarian healthcare

The united opposition plans to spend an extra 1,200 billion forints (€ 3.4 billion) in four years on Hungarian health care, its prime ministerial candidate told a forum on Friday.

The extra funding would reform health care in line with European market methods rather than operating a centralised “communist system”, Péter Márki-Zay told a press conference in front a district health clinic in Budapest.

He accused the Fidesz government of regarding health care purely as a business and running public health care into the ground so that the only option remaining to the sick would be to use hospitals owned by “Fidesz oligarchs”.

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The politician vowed to revamp Hungary’s health care and to fund it through a single national insurance model.

He said patients waiting more than six months for surgery would be referred to a private provider and the state would pick up the bill.