Police, teachers, inspectors and senior officials take to the streets today in defense of Muface

At this time the only company that shows interest in presenting itself to the tender is Asisa, after Adeslas and DKV dropped out of it considering that the increase in 33.5% with respect to the previous contract proposed by the Government was insufficient. Asisa, for its part, has until January 27 to confirm to the Ministry of Public Function whether it agrees with the new offer.

And while this happens, The million and a half million beneficiaries of the system remain mired in uncertaintyand the demonstrations do not stop happening. Today’s meeting is attended by ANPE (teachers’ union), SIAT (Tax Agency staff), SPP, SUP and UFP (police), USIE (educational inspection), Fedeca (senior officials) and USO, the Workers’ Union Union. They are some of those who already demonstrated on December 11. As then, today Csif, the majority union of public service professionals, does not participate, which has its own calendar of mobilizations.

In a joint statement, the organizers denounce “the incompetence of politicians and the lack of ethics of insurers,” in addition to the «poor management and total lack of foresight«, they say, that » added to the project headed by the Minister of Health to make the mutual insurance disappear, they have led us to the point where we are now: an abandonment of patients, some of them in treatment, leading us all to a dramatic situation of uncertainty.”

That is to say, the unions target everyone. To the Government, to companies and to Minister of Health Mónica García, who in recent weeks has insisted on the possibility of the public system assuming coverage of the million and a half beneficiaries of Muface. It must be remembered that in November his department leaked a document in which it proposed the transfer to the autonomous communities – because healthcare was transferred – of the 2,681 million euros that the State allocates to this concert. After this, on January 13, the minister attacked the insurers, ensuring that “they are crunching the numbers and have decided that the insured are not profitable because they have grown older,” and on Monday she once again added her voice to the controversy by insisting that The arms of public health “are open” to receive officials.

The problem is that the interested parties do not want that solution, as Csif has stated on repeated occasions and along those lines is the statement from the unions present at today’s protest, in which they remember that the transfer would have a “strong impact”especially in the autonomous communities that are already experiencing a collapse and that could not withstand this new situation.