9 Amendments of Csaba ŐRY related to 2007/2290(INI)
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. strongly recommends Member States to limit reliance on private finance when they adopt reforms with the objective to ensure a long-term financial sustainability of their respective national healthcare system; when adopting healthcare reforms, Member States are well advised to ensure that there are clear boundaries between public and private finance so that private finance does not draw on public resources or distort public resource allocation and priorities;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18 b. Recognizes the importance of public financing in achieving the objective of solidarity, and the wide diversity of the level of public and private financing of health care among Member States; recommends that the Commission carries out research to determine the level and/or range of public financing, which meets the objective of solidarity, both for the system as a whole and for particular service areas;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
18 c. Recognizes the increasing popularity of market-based solutions and privatization in health care financing as a panacea for cost explosion, inefficiency and problems of quality of care, especially among new Member States; recognizes the continuously widening evidence base that the functional privatization of social health insurance systems, the profit motive and the competition between financial intermediaries usually make the administration of health care systems more expensive, whilst their beneficial effects in terms of cost containment, efficiency and quality of care are dubious; for this reason, recommends that the governments of Member States with a single payer model, preserve their single payer model;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19 b. is deeply convinced that the starting point for any reform should be a careful analysis of the existing health (financing) system to identify weaknesses and problem areas, combined with understanding of the contextual factors that may contribute to or impede successful reform; expects that Member States are fully aware of the considerable impact of healthcare reforms on the operation, capacity, and efficiency of their respective healthcare system, and of the threats that insufficiently or inadequately prepared reform measures can exert on the quality and availability of healthcare services, on the health status of the citizens, and hence on their employability;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 c (new)
Paragraph 19 c (new)
19 c. calls on Member States to consider the whole range of health financing functions and policies, rather than focusing on the contribution mechanisms alone; is convinced that raising the level of employment-based contributions, or raising the private contribution of the patients to the cost of healthcare services are wrong policies, and can lead to disastrous consequences since they limit in an unacceptable way the access of citizens with low incomes to the full range of healthcare services;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 d (new)
Paragraph 19 d (new)
19 d. is convinced that the access of citizens with low incomes to high quality healthcare services should clearly be seen as a priority, that it is linked most closely with the European values of solidarity and equal rights, and that it constitutes a precondition for the successful achievement of the Lisbon objectives of full employment;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 e (new)
Paragraph 19 e (new)
19 e. calls on the European Commission to take into account the aspects of equal rights of all European citizens to high quality healthcare systems, and to integrate the necessary guarantees against discrimination of citizens on financial basis into the revision of European anti-discrimination legislation, or any new legislative instrument dealing with the issue of access to healthcare services;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 f (new)
Paragraph 19 f (new)
19f. recommends that Member States contribute to efficiency and equity in their respective healthcare systems by lowering the number of pools or — better still — by creating a single, national pool that can facilitate strategic direction and co- ordination throughout the health system;