Speaking at a campaign rally on Wednesday, Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the governing conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, said that Poland’s spending on healthcare was on track to increase to 6 percent of GDP by 2024.
"That will be more than double the amount of funds, meaning a huge change," he said at the political convention in the central city of Radom.
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said this summer that public spending on healthcare was set to exceed PLN 100 billion (EUR 23.5 billion, USD 27 billion) this year, up from PLN 73 billion in 2014.
Unveiling a preliminary draft of Poland's 2020 budget at the end of last month, Morawiecki said that healthcare expenditure would exceed 5 percent of GDP next year, coming to more than PLN 109 billion.
Healthcare expenditure in Poland will increase to at least 6 percent of GDP by 2024 under legislation passed by the country’s parliament and greenlighted by President Andrzej Duda last year.
Health Minister Łukasz Szumowski said at a conference in June that Poles did not want a revolution in healthcare, but gradual change that would not turn the system upside down.
(gs/pk)
Source: IAR