Cost cuts rejected to save jobs
Sep 16, 2009
By Ella Karapetyan

FIRST AID: Health care executives worry that salary cuts will lead to mass exodus from the country.
TALLINN - Because of sharp opposition from the Union of Hospitals and the various medical workers' unions, the Council of Eesti Haigekassa (Estonian Health Insurance Fund) couldn't arrive at a common agreement on lowering the costs of medical services.
According to press-secretary Evelin Koppel, the Insurance Fund has made an offer to lower the cost of medical services, and stressed that it is important to lower the costs of medical services as it would then be easier for people to get medical ...
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