Plans To Alter Insurance Payments Opposed By Ministry Of Finance

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Healthcare financing appears to be causing unrest within Slovakia's Smer-led government, after finance minister Jan Pociatek criticised a set of proposals from the Ministry of Health. The plans, which are designed to increase public healthcare contributions and give the state more control over private insurers, are likely to have frustrated Pociatek, who has worked hard on plans to reduce the fiscal deficit in preparation for euro adoption in