Mentzen: The Silesian Health Fund Was the Best in the World. If Anyone in Silesia Remembers the 90s, This is What We Should Emulate

14/04/2025

21:07

Mentzen:

The Silesian Health Fund Was the Best in the World. If Anyone in Silesia Remembers the 90s, This is What We Should Emulate

Michał Lubowicki

– We need to look at where healthcare systems function well. In Poland, it's not working well; we are almost in 60th place in the world rankings. We are even behind Lebanon, behind Azerbaijan. But they function well, for example, in Germany and Switzerland, and we should emulate them. There, we have competing healthcare systems, thanks to which we would pay the same contributions as currently, but the quality, due to competition and much better management, would be significantly better – said Sławomir Mentzen during a TV Republika debate.

– I will appoint my special team of experts, headed by Andrzej Sośnierz, who in the 90s was the president of the Silesian Health Fund, which was the best functioning in the world. If anyone among you in Silesia remembers the 90s, this is precisely what we should emulate, what we will return to – he stated.

– We also need to stop the trend of students leaving straight for Germany right after graduation. Poland pays almost a million zlotys for a student's education, and they run off to Germany instead of working in Poland for at least a few years. And this needs to change – he added.

Michał Lubowicki

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