The story of the health care bill is far from over, as Fidesz morally supports a referendum drive to halt the implementation of the bill, caucus leader Tibor Navracsics told a Tuesday press conference. The governing majority knows that the bill would fail in a referendum, he added.
Éva and Zsolt Albert, the initiators of the referendum on a multi-player insurance system, said they will not desist, although they had been taken unawares by a letter in which Health Minister Ágnes Horváth argued that their initiative does not apply to the bill, as it is not about a multi-player system. “We shall not give up, and in fact the letter persuaded us that we hit a raw nerve,” Zsolt Albert said.
Fidesz will try to persuade MPs of goodwill to ease the pace of implementing the Act and its consequences, said former health minister István Mikola.
Chamber of Hungarian Physicians president István Éger said a minority had forced its will on the majority by having the bill passed. “The word of the people will have the final say,” he declared.
