CADCA, March 27, (WEBNOVINY)- After privatization of the country’s six largest heating plants the coalition KDH will demand that the complete proceed from the sale was poured into the health sector. KDH leader Jan Figel ranked the healthcare among the topics on the agenda of the meeting of the KDH Council in Cadca on Saturday.
The KDH Council supports the steps of the minister and the Cabinet aimed at increasing transparency and thriftiness in the whole sector, for example in the area of drug policy and price-making, reported Figel. This was also the focus of the discussion on privatization of the heating plants, which the Cabinet supported. According to Figel, his party will insist that privatization proceeds from the heating plants‘ sale were used to settle the debt of health utilities and for their consequent transformation. ‚It is a very important support of the entire process of recovery in this sector,” said Figel adding that as of April 1 a cap on additional fees for drugs and health services comes into effect meaning that seniors will pay for drugs from their own pocket EUR 45 at maximum during a three-month period while the cap for gravely disabled persons is EUR 30 at maximum per quarter.
Another important topic on the Council’s agenda was the prepared changes to the payroll levy system. Figel argued that these changes may bring more jobs, business activities ad dynamics in the whole economic sector and on the labor market, which depends just on the level of the tax and payroll levy system. Figel said that the KDH Council has supported the so far stances of the KDH leadership. These attitudes will protect the rights and the status of the self-employed persons and tradesmen so that new measures do not impose new burdens on them but rather mean more transparency, unification and less red tap in the process of collection of payroll levies and taxes and, of course a lower total payroll levy burden, argued the KDH head.
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