site.btaHealth Insurance Act Revisions Revoted, Overriding Presidential Veto

Bulgaria's Parliament on Thursday voted, 124-85 with three abstentions, to override a presidential veto and pass conclusively an Act to Amend and Supplement the Health Insurance Act.

Last week President Rumen Radev vetoed provisions of the bill, arguing that the revisions create prerequisites for restricting Bulgarian citizens' constitutional right to a choice of treatment at a particular medical-treatment facility.

"The amendments to Article 59 of the Health Insurance Act lead to re-establishing the limits upon the provision of medical care. This measure is unlikely to help attain fully the objective set by the legislator for better planning and spending of the financial resources of the National Health Insurance Fund but essentially constitutes an unjustified interference with the principles of health insurance," the President's reasoning reads.