Health Committee gets extension as literalist Oleksy sees Sejm debate postponed

The Senate Health Committee has been granted another week to finalize its work on the new health law. Meanwhile, Sejm Speaker Józef Oleksy has expressed his belief that the government should introduce an amendment to the bill that would limit the number of items to be covered by the law, as although the Committee has been working on the matter for one and a half weeks it has only managed to deal with a 20 or so of the 250 issues currently set to be included in the legislation. Following Oleksy’s address to the Sejm yesterday, it was decided that the debate on the law would be postponed until July 20. "Two weeks is fair, ample time. After all, God created the world in seven days," Oleksy reasoned. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 5) A.F.