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We Are Nearing The Bitter End Of Public Healthcare

In recent days, the government has announced that it has tabled an amendment to the law abolishing supplementary health insurance. But then Robert Golob said that they want to freeze the prices of supplementary insurance with the tabled amendment, thus preventing insurance companies from making private profits, paediatrician Tina Bregant said at the beginning of …

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MP Eva Irgl Calls Extraordinary Session Of The Commission On Human Rights Due To The Drastic Situation In The Healthcare Sector

Eva Irgl, Chair of the Commission on Petitions, Human Rights and Equal Opportunities, has called an urgent meeting of the Commission in view of the chaotic and dangerous situation in the healthcare sector. Among others, Minister of Health Bešič Loredna and Ljubljana Mayor Janković, who have been filling the headlines in recent days with their …

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Healthcare Has Divided The Coalition: The Social Democrats Are Attacking Prime Minister Golob And Health Minister Bešič Loredan

The Social Democrats (Socialni demokrati – SD) support Keber’s Cuban model of healthcare, where all decision-making and financing centres for healthcare are concentrated in a single point managed by the state. This is a model of state-run, not public, healthcare. And it is precisely this model – which the left-wing governments have been advocating all …

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From Promises Of Only Having To Wait 30 Days To See A Specialists, To A Collapse Of The Healthcare System

The Social Democrats (Socialni demokrati – SD) are a party of promises. In all of the years that they have been part of left-wing coalitions, they have promised us decent wages, pensions, long-term care, an end to poverty and a healthcare system where no one is left behind – and they promised this before every …

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72 Percent Of Patients With The Degree Of Urgency “Very Fast” On Their Referrals Wait For Their Appointment Longer Than The Maximum Allowed Period

If we thought that there was no interest in saving and prudent use of money allocated for healthcare under socialism, judging by the work of the Golob government, there is even less or no interest in that in Slovenia today. Why else would 72 percent of the people with the degree of urgency marked as …

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