ime Minister and SMER-SD Chairman Robert Fico stated on Saturday on Slovak Radio that the government is ready to go to international arbitrations that shareholders of private health insurance companies want to open against the Slovak Republic after Parliament-approved amendment to the health insurance law limited their possibility to make profit. "Nobody of us is shivering with fear," the prime minister stated in a political discussion "Saturday Dialogues." He said that the government faced the same pressures after the cancellation of the Bratislava airport privatization but ultimately no arbitration was initiated. The prime minister is convinced that the adopted law will cause no damage to health insurers just limit their possibility to cut a slice from the public finance cake. He stated he is against foreign companies making profit from public sources.
SMER-SD that pushed for the profit-curbing law despite reservations of its coalition partners is not concerned that the LS-HZDS or the SNS could hit back on the next occasion. Mr. Fico expects that the draft state budget bill and also the amendment to the social insurance law that are SMER-SD's priorities will go through without problems.
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