2023-12-26 20:58:00
The owner of Swiss Medicaland president of the Argentine Union of Health Entities (UAS), Claudio Belocopittanticipated that, in the first three months of 2024, there will be significant increases in prepaid.
“If you are increasing 40% in January but the delay is much greater and it will be recovered with the updates of February, March and April. The recomposition is going to be gradual but this is very big. We are making a gradual scale“, he stated, in dialogue with the program ‘This morning’, of Radio Rivadavia.
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Online, and to justify the measure, he assured: “It is not prepaid medicine that increases, it is the things that make up the health system those that rise.”
“The fact that costs have increased shows that It is miraculous that the system has been able to sustain itself this far. It is the only sector of the economy that has been like this, because if you compare private medicine with gas and water, beyond the fact that they have nothing to do with each other because there are only suppliers, they have had subsidies, here the price of the fare was controlled and the costs were not looked at, the law was not even complied with“he added.
In this sense, he considered “necessary” that the prepaid ones come out of “a system that has been hyper-regulated for 17 years.”
“We are experiencing a process that began in 2006 and worsened from 2010 onwards, with tremendous price control but never with cost control and much less with performance control. This led to a state of stress to the entire system. Even so, everything has been able to survive, but the consequences of the meddling of politics in the sector,” he said.
At the same time, defended the DNU of Javier Milei’s government to “deregulate” the economy, ensuring that “he wants to put white on black.” “Healthcare companies aim to be within reach of the market so that the vast majority of users can hire them. Now, What is absolutely impossible is to keep costs down, because this is about health, not products that can be postponed,” he said.
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On the other hand, he highlighted the “urgency”, ensures that the Mandatory Medical Plansince “that is one of the most important points for allow flexibility in health plans“, something that “it is currently prohibited by law.”
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It should be noted that the PMO, through the Decree 492/1995establishes the mandatory minimum benefits that all prepaid and social works must cover in any of its plans, which include, to mention:
He Maternal and Child Plan
Female cancer prevention programsespecially breast and cervical cancer
odontologywith prevention, fluoridation and oral health education campaigns, as well as diagnostic consultation and treatment plan
Internmentwith 100% coverage
Mental health, with up to 30 outpatient consultations per year, psychiatric and psychological interviews, in addition to covered hospitalization up to 30 days per year for acute pathologies
Sexual and reproductive healthwith the placement and removal of the subdermal implant, the IUD and the Levonorgestrel Intrauterine Releasing System as contraceptive methods
Medicineswith 40% coverage in terms of prices and, in some specific cases (oncological medications, for kidney failure or included in special programs, as well as for hospitalized patients), with 100%
Addictionswith medical, psychological treatments and medications for people with drug addiction problems
VIH/SIDAwith the inclusion of medical, psychological treatments and medications
“The P.M.O. It is absolutely vast and does not exist anywhere in the world. Argentina has miserable pensions and a first-world health system, but that only 15% of the country receives, which belongs to the private system“he concluded.
RS / LR
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