Shockingly, entrenched interest are opposing the Universal Healthcare Act: The self-appointed “Egyptian Committee to Defend the Right to Healthcare” has launched a campaign to oppose the Universal Healthcare Act, which was recently approved by the Ismail cabinet, Ahram Online reports. In a statement on Saturday, the group said that the quality conditions set by the bill on public hospitals would be impossible to meet since the government had repeatedly failed to meet constitutional requirements for healthcare spending. They believe that this will open the door to the privatization of public hospitals. The group also contends that the tithe paid by employees into the state health insurance fund was an excessive burden. According to the committee, the campaign's launch statement has already been signed by a number of public figures, doctors, activists, MPs, political parties and NGOs. To all of that we say: haters gonna hate.

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