HN: Health fees for Czech patients may be reinstated

Most Czech parties, including Andrej Babis's ANO, the favourite of the forthcoming October general election, are for the reintroduction of fees for the stay in hospital, the idea only rejected by the Social Democrats and Communists , daily Hospodarske noviny writes today. Social Democrat election leader Lubomir Zaoralek vows to die for the health system without the fees, but his attitude is increasingly isolated, HN writes, adding that even in the neighbouring Slovakia, the government of Prime Minister Robert Fico, also a Social Democrat, has approved an increase in the payment for acute care.