Poles willing to pay additional PLN 30 a month to the health insurance premium

According to IBRiS research, Poles are willing to pay an additional PLN 30 a month to the health insurance premium, and the average amount is as much as PLN 55. 50 percent of Poles want to pay a higher health contribution for health care, provided that these funds would be earmarked for a specific purpose – e.g. shortening queues or better access to doctors. As many as 72 percent of Poles believe that the health care system in Poland is functioning poorly. 

The Federation of Polish Entrepreneurs (FPP) presented a package for saving the health of Poles developed by the Center for Legislative Analysis and Economic Policy (CALPE). The package includes an increase in outlays thanks to a small increase in the health contribution and the introduction of Occupational Health Plans.

As many as 80 percent of Poles believe that the Polish health care system should receive more money to treat patients. The area of ​​health care which most urgently needs improvement is access to specialist doctors (82 percent), as well as access to diagnostics, treatment, and new effective drugs (48 percent), quality of treatment care (31 percent), access to family doctors ( 29 percent), access to hospital care (28 percent) and higher salaries of the medical service (27 percent).

"FPP indicates that the main benefit of co-financing health care will be an increase in work efficiency, longer professional activity, and fewer sickness absences, as well as reduction of costs related to premature deaths due to diseases. These are tangible benefits for all employers and the economy of the entire country,” Łukasz Kozłowski, chief economist of the Federation of Polish Entrepreneurs, vice president of the Center for Legislative Analysis and Economic Policy CALPE, emphasized.

(WBJ)