Ministers will on Friday discuss plans by health minister Edith Schippers to remove more treatment from the basic health insurance package, according to media reports.

The new proposals include scrapping help to people who want to stop smoking and improve their diet. Physiotherapy for chronic conditions will cost more and people with psychiatric problems will get five rather than eight treatment sessions, and pay higher fees.
Some sources also say family doctors face a €130m cut in their budgets.
Last year, dental treatment for 18 to 21-year-olds, contraceptive pills and anti-depressants were removed from the basic coverage
Overspending
The minister says the new cuts are needed to stop the continuing rise in health sector spending, which threatens to be €3bn over budget by 2015.
Schippers said earlier she did not plan to increase the compulsory own risk element in health insurance, currently €170 a year, to raise extra cash.
In the Netherlands, health insurance is provided by private companies but the government determines what should be included in the basic care package. Insurers can then offer extra treatment in top-up policies.
The government’s plans to take walking aids out of the basic healthcare package to save upwards of €20m was reversed last year after protests from MPs.
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