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Plans for a national security body for Germany ... present health legislation, part of the government's public finance reform valid since January, Czechs have to pay regulatory fees of 30, 60 and 90 crowns for a visit to a surgery and an item on prescription, for a day spent in hospital and for using the emergency medical service. It was the two junior ruling parties, the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) and the Greens (SZ), who recently pushed through the abolition of the newborn babies' fees on the coalition soil.
The bill subsequently made it through the lower house. The Senate committee, however, today recommended that the upper house return the relevant bill to the Chamber of Deputies, along with a proposal that the abolition of the fees for newborn babies be preserved. The nine-member committee is dominated by the senior ruling Civic Democrats (ODS), as is the whole Senate, in which the ODS commands a majority of votes. The Senate's plenary session is to vote on the bill later this week. "I'm very sorry. I hope that the plenary session will finally vote in support of newborn babies," KDU-CSL deputy Michaela Sojdrova, who has promoted the abolition plan, told CTK in reaction to the committee's decision today. ($1=14.705 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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