Health Minister: plan to dismantle NFZ to be announced in a few months

The Minister of Health Konstanty Radziwiłł announced that a plan to break up the National Health Fund will be published "within the next few months". Speaking on Thursday in Katowice, the Minister said that the dissolution of the fund will only be implemented in 2018 at the earliest. "This is not dismantling for the sake of dismantling," he emphasized, adding that the new healthcare system put in its place will place major responsibility on municipal agencies to ensure that the system is paid for; this marks a contrast with the current system in which each individual citizen has to pay national insurance.