On the one hand, Imre László, the health politician of the DK, said that the number of hospitals is "very many, unreasonably many", and therefore 45% of the hospitals will be closed. On the other hand, the current candidate for prime minister of the left explained that paid health care is not from the devil, and that hospitals would work much better if they were privatized. - wrote Bence Rétvári, EMMI's state secretary, in his Facebook post.
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Unfortunately, the left has a long tradition of closing hospitals, as several institutions were closed during their administration, for example the Buda Children's Hospital, the National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology (OPNI), the Szabolcs Street Hospital, and the Schöpf-Mere Hospital.
Paid healthcare is also nothing new, as the visiting fee and the daily hospital fee were introduced by the left and abolished in 2008 by the social referendum initiated by the Fidesz-KDNP. In the same way, a referendum decided in 2004 that health is not a business. Yet the left tried to make a business out of healthcare, privatizing hospitals, just think of the Hospinvest scandal.
So what's new in the left's healthcare agenda? Nothing, they would continue where they left off before 2010. They are planning again what they have already fallen into: spending cuts, privatization, institution closures, austerity in Hungarian. However, between 2010 and 2022, we increased the health budget from HUF 1,197 billion to HUF 2,884 billion, almost two and a half times. We must go forward, not back!
