PO Deputies ask President to veto health bill

The Civic Platform (PO) has asked Aleksander Kwasniewski to either veto the bill on the National Health Fund or refer it to the Constitutional Tribunal. In its letter to the President, the PO deputies pointed out a number of legal flaws surrounding the bill. Elzbieta Radziszewska said that the new health regulation will in no way cure the ills of the previous system or its ailing funds. She also added that it could even result in paralysis of the whole medical care system, as a two-week break between closing the health funds and setting up the National Health Fund is far too short. This is mostly due to the fact that the most important executive regulations to the new bill have not yet been passed. The President is to make a decision by February 17. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A4) M.M.