[Trending News] The transfer to blackmail of MUFACE insurers by the Ministry of Public Function opens the doors to privatization

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Public money to pay private insurers who provide assistance to have finally increased by 41%, while the increase in public health expenditure by just 4% (ten times less). The budget for MUFACE has grown by 80% to reach 4,808.5 million euros.

This rain of millions for mufface means to maintain an obsolete model based on inequality and opens the path to privatization by further strengthening the presence of Large insurance companies (largely in the hands of multinationals) in public health care: Asisa, Adeslas or Nueva Mutua Sanitary that announced an agreement with the Ministry of Public Function to which now, other insurers, attracted by the rain of millions, such as Mapfre, the Axa and Sanitas Group. Mapfre It has 880,000 clients and has 21 medical centers, agreements 270 private hospitals; The French multinational Axxa with presence in Europe, America, Africa and Asia and that has more than 3.5 million customers in Spain and 6.1 million policies; Sanitas, Property of the British United Provident Association the second international medical care group based in the United Kingdom.

The budget for MUFACE has grown by 80% to reach 4,808.5 million euros

The big beneficiaries of the cuts of the public health system have been these companies that They have increased their customers 30% in the last 10 years, to reach 12.4 million users that represent 25% of the population. Their profits have gone from 7,127 million euros to 11,098 million (35.7% growth).

The three legs that support the huge profits of insurers are:

• The funds They receive from the State through MUFACE
• THE ACCESS TO THE SYSTEM public for the cuts that have fired the hiring of complementary insurance policies
• The Exploitation of your professionalswhose conditions have not improved in 30 years: Adeslas pays its medical staff 9 euros for a first consultation or assisa 8.69 euros.

Now, in the heat the rain of millions for MUFACE, the 5,000 autonomous doctors of free exercise (represented by Uniproel) intend to participate in the feast, stating that the State directly hires with them the assistance of the mutualists instead of the insurers. They propose that to the next MuFACE agreement (within 3 years) all doctors and private centers can attend and that patients can freely resort to public care or the concerted, changing whether the current Spanish model to adopt for French. Health expenditure in France represents 11% of GDP, 36% higher than that of Spain (7.2% of GDP) and also does not guarantee universal care as in Spain.

It is unacceptable to underpin public money to private health. It would be necessary to remind the Minister of Public that there will not always be a progressive government and that these measures favorable to insurers will be used by future conservative governments, to legitimize the privatization of the system.