The Party of Unity for the Health of our Nation, better known as the doctors party, is already collecting signatures ahead of an eventual referendum on a multi-player health insurance system. Several unions have vowed to press ahead with the referendum and the doctors party is backing them.
Party chairman Miklós Lőte told Magyar Hírlap that he has no illusions about whether the governing parties will again pass the bill establishing a multi-player health insurance system on February 11, adding that his party has already drafted an application to void the bill that will be submitted to the Constitutional Court in February. The application will cite two clauses in the Constitution which specify that Hungarian residents are entitled to the highest level of health care services, to be provided by the state through social insurance and social welfare institutions.
Moreover, Lőte continued, the multi-player insurance system contradicts the doctors’ oath, as the business angle will powerfully restrict their freedom to heal patients.
Gábor Kerpen, head of the Democratic Union of Teachers, announced on Monday that his union is joining the referendum initiative.
