Privatization of Health

I open this thread to comment news and put our opinions on the open process in different autonomies of the privatization of health.

I leave this link, war between private groups for getting with ‘the sanitary cake’ in Castilla-La Mancha:

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First news, redefine the service portfolio: Link ... 41752.html

1. The International Monetary Fund describes as "risk" that people live too much.

2. It has been repeated to satiety, like a mantra, that Spanish health is unsustainable.Not only have the liberal self -proclaimed media done, but also others that, not declaring themselves liberal, de facto are (the other day, for example, I heard it on the national radio of Spain).However, Spanish health is among the cheapest in the European Union.

3. Spain is the seventh country of the world in life expectancy, of a list of 210. That is, we are within 5% of longest countries.If we remove countries whose population does not allow them to equate them to ours, such as San Marino (31,716 inhabitants) or Hong Kong (7,008,900), we are the second.

3 bis.All countries that give us lessons about economics, sustainability or health are behind us.France, two positions behind.Germany, twenty -five.United States, forty -three.

4. Our per capita income is lower than that of all the countries appointed.With a lower per capita income and a lower health expense than that of France and that of Germany - of the United States I do not have data - our life expectancy is greater.

5. With all these data, a country that until now, winning less and spending less resources, has a greater life expectancy, is taking lessons from some countries that, with more money and more expense, live less.We can only call that in a way: stupidity.

There was a fable - I don't remember the author;If someone knows it, to indicate it in the comments - in which a Cuervo Tuerto tried to give advice to a slut.The fox, with good judgment, sent the crow to walk: "How are you going to give me advice, that you have not known how to take care of yourself?"

In this fable, we are the fox.The difference is that this time we take the words of the crow like the suggest of wisdom.This will show us hair.

5 bis.The right down due to illness.The right to a decent salary.The right to strike.The right to peaceful manifestation.Now, the right to life and health.The speed with which we are accepting the resignation of rights that have been achieved after hundreds of years of struggle cannot presage anything good.

Coda: You can continue to pull data.For example, that many European retirees come to Spain to operate or receive medical assistance, because it is free and quality, rejecting those of their own countries.And more: that Spain is, that I know, of the few countries that offers really universal free medical assistance, including immigrants, whether legal or not.Everything leads us to the same: our health system is likely to be the most efficient of the globe.And they want to load it, so that we are only the first in the king sport.Pena, disgust and shame of the rulers who have this poor piece of land

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The justifications to health cuts are the previous step to privatization, according to experts

Four health experts have published a book in which they warn that the "pseudodiscourse" that it is inevitable to apply cuts in the current economic context hides, in fact, an intention to privatize the health sector that already comes from afar.

"The problem is no longer so much cuts, but these adjustments are being used as an excuse to take advantage of the neoliberal movements that, for years, want health to open to private capital," explained Joan Benach, oneFrom the authors of the book Health is for sale. "

In an interview, Benach has assured that "Health is the great jewel of the state crown that is still left to exploit and get benefits."

Benach is a professor at the Research Group in Health Inequalities (GREDS) at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and, between 2005 and 2008, collaborated with the World Health Organization (WHO) analyzing the social factors that determine the state of healthof people.

The other authors of the book, Carles Muntaner and Gemma Tarafa, are also Greds researchers, while the fourth author, Clara Valverde, is a nursing professor and president of the League Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (SFC).

The authors of the book argue that, even before the outbreak of the crisis, neoliberal policies are "polluting" political discourse with theories such as health systems are unsustainable or "euphemisms" such as "rationalizing" spending.

For Benach, everything is a matter of priorities in the investment of public resources, but both CiU in Catalonia and the PP in Spain have chosen to launch a "battle of words" to "create a lot of confusion, distort everything public and get aDual Health, one from the poor public and another private of rich, "he says.

The book addresses the situation of health in different parts of Europe and also enters to value health policies that are being carried out in Spain.

The work criticizes the copay of the euro for recipe, considering it an ineffective system that only generates more inequity on Catalonia, the book openly criticizes formulas such as the euro co -payment per recipe, when considering it an ineffective system to reduce pharmaceutical expense and that only manages to generateMore inequity.

According to Benach, "the pharmaceutical expense in Spain is scandalous", but in large part by factors on which, the author says, you can act, such as the citizen idea that you have to leave the consultation with a recipe or the pressure ofPharmaceuticals about doctors to prescribe.

The UPF professor also rejects the speech that is spent a lot in health in Spain, since the investment is below the average of the Europe 15 or that of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

"We spend little on health and there is an infraction of officials, but it is still a fairly efficient system, although it can always be improved," summarizes the expert.

Benach also loads against the conflict of interests that, in their opinion, have some political leaders such as the Minister Ruiz himself, in his case, says the expert, for his professional past in the employer Catalan Union of Hospitals.

patient associations ask for exceptions to the new pharmaceutical co -payment.

There is no official co -payment announcement, nor does measures to adjust treatments and drugs that have public financing, but associations of patients such as diabetes already assume the impact that the new cuts will have on their lives.Among them the change of the pharmaceutical co -payment, the measure that has the most possibilities to get ahead in the Interterritorial Health Council that will be held tomorrow to save 7,000 million euros.This change pretends that the highest income paid more for the drugs that are prescribed in public health.

José Ignacio Echániz, Minister of Health of Castilla-La Mancha confirmed in an interview with regional television that will be one of the measures that will be studied at the meeting with the communities.In his opinion, these are equitable measures that will introduce "more justice in society." "We want those who have less pay less and those who have more pay more."

The Spanish Diabetics Federation (Fede) warns that savings measures will generally affect all patients, but especially lower income citizens and chronic patients.

The Federation of Spanish Diabetics is especially concerned that they stop financing reactive strips and blood glucose meters, two essential measures in the good control of our ailment and with which the risk of developing other more serious pathologies is raised,such as loss of vision, including blindness;non -traumatic amputations in lower limbs;renal failure (dialysis and kidney transplantation);coronary problems, etc., and that would multiply health spending by four.They ensure that initial savings will cause in the long term "the opposite effect and will result in the general worsening of the entire population."

Centralized medicine purchase.
Instead that each Ministry of Health or each hospital negotiate a price with each of the laboratories for medicines and hospital supply, it is intended to have a shopping center.Government sources estimate that only with this proposal could be saved up to 10 percent of the 7,000 million.