Govt Supporting Private Health, Minister Says
The goal of the government is to promote private enterprise, and that includes the health sector, Health Minister Andrej Brucan told the biggest meeting of general practitioners in Slovenia.
Speaking at the 47th Tavcar Days event in Portoroz on Friday, Brucan said that Slovenia needs to privatise its health sector because most EU countries have privatised their primary health sector and are working on privatising the secondary sector as well.
"The transition to private health care is somewhat more complicated for Slovenia because of its history," Brucan said. He claimed that the media have done their bit in misleading the public about what privatisation would bring.
"Private doctors make for a part of the public health sector and are financed exactly the same way as state health workers," he said, adding that fears that people would have to pay for health out of their own pockets are baseless.
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