A National Health Financing Fund will be set up, owned by and controlled by the government.

Are you sure? Are you quite certain these guys won't request for kickbacks, or that patients need to be referred to only certain specialists or hospitals for otherwise the second signature on that cheque will not be forthcoming?

An unfounded fear? It is already rampant between private hospitals and MCOs currently. Is Karol certain they have thought this through? Probably not. We just need to try this out, won't we? If everything works, well and good. If it doesn't, well a couple of patients will die in the ensuing chaos. A small price to pay to overcome the learning curve I guess. When the government holds these funds there is little accountability.