Abertzale’s union has asked the governments of the Basque Country and Navarre to refuse to implement the new plan which would consist of the mutuals “taking control of the common diseases of the active population”.
Euskaraz irakurri: Osasun system pribatizatzeko status mailako egitasmoa dagoela salatu du LABek
Labor union LAB denounces “the largest attempt to privatize public health at the state level, through mutual societies“. The central abertzale has revealed the existence of a draft agreed between the Spanish Social Security and the Association of Mutual Employers AMAT which proposes that mutual societies should manage not only occupational diseases, but also common diseases of productive people for the system.
The General Coordinator of the Union, Igor Arroyo, explained at a press conference yesterday that with “the apologies for a Cooperation for reduce waiting lists of the public health system what is desired is “that the mutual employers take over the health service of the working population and empty the public health system”.
The plan would have already been there transferred to each Autonomous Community for its implementation between the corresponding health department and the mutual employers, for which it has asked both the Basque government and the Navarro executive to “say a resounding no to this privatization attempt”.
In Arroyo’s words, the excuse is “to ease the waiting lists of the public health system,” but he warned that the way to do it “is not privatization, but quite the opposite: investing in the public sector.”
He asked them to “take a clear commitment” that the care of the common diseases of these workers will not be entrusted to mutual employers and, on the contrary, to promote the “opposite direction” so that the companies arrange the care of the occupational diseases with Social Security and “therefore management is carried out from the public health system”. In this regard, Arroyo emphasized that the “best guarantee of worker health is a strong public system”.
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Source: EITB
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