Said Hippocrates That any medical professional must declare the past, diagnose the present and forecast the future. This week we have witnessed the outcome of MUFACEwhich has been lived among officials as a Hollywoody blockbuster in which deactivate the bomb in the last sigh of the film. But now you have to analyze the rest of the connections, because if you bet on a model that has been a success for decades, you have to be consistent and not stay in the propaganda that only floods politics today.
This reflection leads us directly to diagnose the present. The care offer of MUFACE It has been deteriorating in recent years. There are many factors, but the infinance of the system in the last decade the detonating ingredient. Now we have seen a state budget effort that, seen the outcome of the negotiation, has convinced insurers to tender. Of course, up to three tenders have been necessary to see the concert viable.
However, 41.5% increase on premiums cannot only raise the remuneration of financing agents when the really mollar is the Assistance Service. In other words, if the budget effort does not reach the final provider of the service, who will suffer the decrease will be the officials in the quality of the medical service they receive, which will not have advanced anything. If this happened, the mutualism model will be at risk. Therefore, it is time to demand protection of care quality, since officials are not citizens or second patients.
To achieve this objective, the supply of centers and professionals must increase in order to meet the health demand that have the million and a half people attached to the model. Only in this way can a minimum level of accessibility be ensured, in which the waiting time for access consultationsminor surgeries or the management of serious diagnostics does not exceed in any case 20 days. Likewise, care continuity must be ensured through an integral hospital services that avoids unnecessary derivations for the patient by insurers when resources exist in the center.
Another aspect that must be governed MUFACEif really what is pursued is to give medical assistance, is that the insurer cannot restrict the medical picture once the new contract has started. User’s care continuity cannot be put at risk. We are talking about health, moreover, we are talking about a constitutional right that must be protected whatever the circumstance or responsible for the service.
With the wicker described, the forecast of the model will be favorable. Just ensuring quality assistance makes sense of private sector participation. It cannot be forgotten that our participation in the National Health System makes only sense and future if it is associated with the quality that has always existed. But If not, what is hidden after the best agreement for MuFace in history will be a slow deathprogressive and agonized. Because you cannot forget that the assistance provided from private operators is a choice. And this has been preferably among the body of public workers historically, but in recent years there has been a deterioration of that ascription.
We are at the decisive moment. Now that the new triennium begins for MUFACE is the time that each operator fulfills its mission. The government finances and candle; The insured undertake for the citizen to have a broad and well -paid offer, and the health provision, with this base, will provide the quality service that we have always given. In short, that the maximum of Hippocrates is not empty of content and mufface becomes an exercise of hypocrisy.
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