The state is often a really bad employer, but companies operating under market conditions prove that it is possible to operate well, said the opposition's candidate for prime minister at an audience meeting held in Agárd last November. According to Péter Márki-Zay, waiting lists can be solved very easily, as an example he cited the experience of an American when the imaging test was not performed on the hospital premises, but nearby, at an external company. "And there was no waiting list," Gyurcsány's puppet solved the problem simply, reads the Magyar Hírlap website.
According to Péter Márki-Zay, within the framework of a business, it is even conceivable that "girls in grass skirts serve mojitos, if someone's insurance or their own wallet covers it, but just like providing a normal service, they can give appointments almost immediately and very quickly they do this test, that's guaranteed." In his view, this would also work in Hungary, and he cited private clinics as an example, where "interestingly, there is an appointment right away".
His view of health care is well characterized by the way he expressed his opinion at an event organized in the Gellért Hotel in the fall of 2020. He stated that he supports the visit fee and considers it a problem that it is a taboo subject. "It is necessary to build a service-based, competitive health care system that gives space to private providers even in a single-insurance model. It's not a thought from the devil, although I know that the daily fee and the visit fee have been taboo for the Orbáns since the referendum. Any type of marketing. Big mistake!" Márki-Zay is not short of amazing ideas anyway. "Free healthcare is an illusion," he opined in a video recorded last June.
In an episode of the Second Reform Era, which featured opposition prime ministerial candidates, he stated: "the sad truth is that everything is business" . According to him, it would be hypocritical to say that healthcare is not a business. "To be honest, I'm more relaxed if healthcare is a business than if it's not a business," emphasized Márki-Zay. Based on the vision of Ferenc Gyurcsány, "where there is no business, they are ruined, in Africa they found that the systems where there was free health care were in a terrible state, people died, and so on" . Márki-Zay explained: "Where paid healthcare was introduced, it worked well. So there is no such thing as free health care, when, for example, people pay with gratuities and pay out of pocket," he stated. The politician sees a model that is "a single insurance, competitive healthcare model" as ideal.
The politician does not hide the fact that he would privatize healthcare. In a video, the candidate for prime minister of the left stated: "I am convinced that the only thing that can help the current state of affairs is a drastic privatization." Another issue is that, of course, insurance should not be privatized."
2022plus: How do you know MZP's ideas? Not from the time of the Gyurcsány government? Of course it's from there. At that time, the greatest achievement of the opposition (while in government) was the closing of hospital departments and even entire hospitals, the introduction of the visiting fee and the daily hospital fee (which was prevented by the referendum on the matter), and the pinnacle was the installation of safes in the hospitals. A great achievement, no doubt. What would we be without safes? Without hospitals, it's okay, right?
Well, MZP scraped the very ideas out of the garbage that the majority of Hungarian people threw aside. Do you want to pay a lot for your recovery? Do you want to pay a visit fee every time? Feel free to vote for the opposition if you want. You will get it!
Source: Magyar Hírlap
(Cover image source: Hungarian Times)
