Politics Versus Healthcare

Despite having been introduced over nine months ago, the controversy surrounding the Czech Republic's healthcare reforms - particularly patient fees - remains a key battlefield in the political arena. David Rath, shadow health minister from the senior opposition party, the Czech Social Democratic Party (CSSD), recently claimed that healthcare has become 60% more expensive for patients over the past two years. Rath also claimed that there is nowhere in the world where private healthcare costs have increased so rapidly in such a short period of time, a comment that Civic Democrat Party (ODS) Health Minister Tomáš Cikrt has rejected

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