Superintendent of National Health Service (SSS) Precautionary measure introduced against prepaid companies extended to five more companies, with the aim that companies recalculate the increases in recent months based on inflation and return the fees charged on top of that increase to users. The government’s contradiction is so glaring that it now wants the judiciary to regulate what the executive had deregulated four months ago, but it also introduced a measure by the commerce ministry on a handful of companies as well as greater security. Also gave. Typically, that a federal judge requested “clarification.”
State agency involved German hospital, British hospital, SemikGroup ddm But and Medical Circle of Lomas de Zamora As clarified from Casa Rosada, the complaint alleges “abuse of prepaid pharmaceutical companies in setting fee increases for their users”. With the addition of the new firms, the injunction now covers 23 prepaid pharmaceutical companies. “This is not market intervention but quite the opposite: an action taken by the Superintendent supervisory role so that indicators are transparent and free competition is guaranteed“The government says.
The appeal filed by the SSS aims to get companies to withdraw their prices by December and refund the increase in excess of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). He told the executive that “Precautionary measures are based on protecting competition in defense of the free market against practices anti competitionSuch as abuse of dominant position and excesses in arbitrary and unfair determination of quota increase.”
On the other hand, there is status of protective measures factionalism Enforced by the National Commission for the Protection of Competition (CNDC,, which depends on the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. This measure is already in place, so affected companies will have to recalculate their fees. In this case, the companies that are affected by this measure are Galeno, Hospital Britannico, Hospital Alemán, Medife, Swiss Medical, Omint, OSDE, the Argentine Health Union (UAS) and its former head, Claudio Bellocopite, who is also President of Swiss Medical. are also. S.A.
Contradiction
Interesting that the speech the government uses In sharp contrast to the DNU 70 proposal, which was the beginning of the increase in prepaid, This rule eliminated any regulation on prices in the area. This contradiction is not just a curiosity. For example, Federal Civil and Commercial Judge Mercedes Maquiera requested “clarification” from the government regarding the terms of the protection and the protective measure issued by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce regarding companies’ rates. ,
In fact it is the same, The government asks the judiciary to order prepaid companies to withdraw the rate increase, which, on the one hand, was authorized by DNU 70/23. And, on the other hand, it was allegedly neutralized by a proposal from an organization – the Ministry of Commerce – which itself depends on the executive.
On the other hand, room Second The Federal Civil and Commercial Chamber issued a resolution in which it gives rise to an amparo, establishes that increases in prepaid payments must be adjusted in the inflation increase formula and defines that the difference accumulated over these months remains as a “credit” in favor of the affiliate. This is a special case but it represents a precedent.