00:01A rising number of non-communicable diseases, shortages of health care workers and a growing aging population are shaping the
00:09European health landscape.
00:12Speaking at Euronews Health Summit on Tuesday, European Health Commissioner Oliver Varheyi emphasized the needs to protect Europe's distinct health
00:20care model while also stressing the need for reform.
00:24The European health care model is unique in the world.
00:30It is unique and we should preserve it.
00:33Nowhere else you have such universal coverage of the state-of-the-art diagnostics and treatment.
00:42But I must also tell you that the signs are not very good.
00:48The signs are pointing that this model is under major challenge.
00:57We must face the reality, therefore, that the system is under pressure and we just cannot take it for granted
01:05that it will stay with us tomorrow as well.
01:08The Commissioner outlined several European reforms aimed at strengthening the union and boosting resilience and crisis response.
01:15From a revamp to the bloc's pharmaceutical rules to a biotech act aimed at making it easier to bring products
01:21from the laboratory to the market, simplification is at the core of the initiatives.
01:26We're living in uncertain times by simplifying what should be simplified, implementing and enforcing and updating our rules.
01:37We move further towards the future we want.
01:40The future where innovation thrives and ideas are turned into treatments much faster, where preventing disease is the norm, and
01:52where Europeans can expect only the best from their health care system.
01:57Varhe noted the new initiatives will put the European health industry at the forefront of the global innovation race and
02:04will deliver the best health technologies to the citizens.
02:07Varhe noted the new developments.
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