Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:46:35 +0200https://english.radio.cz/czech-government-puts-health-insurer-vzp-under-administration-8625854© 2026 Radio Prague International It's been in the air for weeks but now it actually happened. The newly appointed health minister, David Rath, has put that the largest state-owned health insurer, the VZP, under administration, bringing the conflict between the Social Democrat-led government and the VZP to a head. The VZP, which caters for some 70 percent of Czechs, is notorious for late payments to doctors and despite many state initiatives over the last years to improve its finances, the health insurer's current debt is more than 10 billion crowns (over 400 million US dollars). encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/rath_paroubek_5.jpg?timestamp=1591461469 https://english.radio.cz/czech-government-puts-health-insurer-vzp-under-administration-8625854 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9