The insurance company SegurCaixa Adeslas sent an email to mutual members this Monday informing them that it has not submitted a tender for the Muface concert for the years 2025 and 2026. The letter arrives 20 days after the sit-in became known. insurers to the Ministry of Public Function, which has announced its intention to present a new offer.
In the email, to which elDiario.es has had access, the company explains that “it has been participating in this model of collaboration with civil servant mutual societies since it was established in 1975” and that “it has proven to be beneficial for the State and, therefore, “So much so, for all citizens.” Adeslas is the company that provides assistance to the most officials and beneficiaries, just over half a million people, about 70,000 less than a decade ago.
In the email, the company does not refer to the period of preliminary market consultations that the Ministry led by Óscar López opened on Wednesday with the objective that insurers, within 10 days, justify how much they are willing to provide the service. , before proceeding to publish a new tender. Nor does it clarify whether it will provide that information to the mutual society.
What the company does convey to its beneficiaries is that the State is responsible for the current blockade situation. “Unfortunately, and against our wishes, the conditions offered in the next concert for the next two years do not allow us to continue providing Muface, in a sustainable way, with the quality service that we have been offering,” writes the Business Director. of Adeslas, Carlos Hernández Iriberri. The agreement that the companies have rejected, including Asisa and DKV, contemplated an increase in the premium of 16.5% for 2025, the largest in the historical series, and 0.6% in 2026.
The Government has the ace of forced extension up its sleeve, which would force insurers to continue providing health care to civil servants and their families under the same conditions as until now. That is, without an increase in the premium. Specifically, the Public Sector Contracts Law, to which the mutual society was covered in a press release, states that “when at the expiration of a contract the new contract that guarantees the continuity of the provision has not been formalized,” this It can be extended for “a maximum period of nine months, without modifying the remaining conditions.”
The insurer, however, indicates to its beneficiaries that they will continue, “as until now, providing health care” that they may “require until next January 31, 2025, date from which the organized healthcare device must take over.” agreed for this purpose by the mutuality.”
The email, indicated by the Independent Trade Union Center and Civil Servants (CSIF), “increases even more the uncertainty of the affected people.” “We do not stop receiving testimonies from people affected by the situation telling us about their case: cancellation of appointments, medical tests, postponement or suspension of surgical operations and diagnostic tests.”
This union, the majority among the civil service, has been pressuring the Government for some time to reach an agreement with the insurers. “Time is running out,” indicate union sources, who are “preparing the device for the large demonstration” called in Madrid on December 14, for which buses from all over Spain will be chartered “to protest the abandonment” of the Executive and “demand quality health care in administrative mutualism.”
#Adeslas #informs #Muface #officials #email #stop #serving #January
