Health minister confident gov't will back plan

Health Minister Milada Emmerova, of the ruling Social Democrats, has expressed confidence that the government will back her proposal for health care reform on Wednesday. At the same time, she has made clear that even if the plan - which covers the period between 2005 to 2009 - is rejected she has no intention of stepping down. At the beginning of the week hospitals, employee representatives, and employers in the health care sector, rejected her reform concept, which includes a debt bail-out of the Czech Republic's largest health insurance company.