Even as the Ministry of Civil Service attempts to resolve the open crisis in Muface, the Central Administrative Court of Contract Appeal has suspended, as a precautionary measure, the open tender process for Mugeju health care and Isfas, which cover justice officials and the military. , respectively, as well as their families. The measure, according to the resolution to which the EFE agency had access, does not affect the deadline for submitting offers nor prevent its completion.
The resources for the two calls for tenders were promoted by Unipromel, the Spanish association of free doctors, traditionally critical of the Muface, Mugeju and Isfas model, believing that the intermediaries, in this case the insurers, did not have impact on increases in premiums on “the real providers of the contract, who are the doctors” and paying them under “cheap” conditions. Its president, Ignacio Guerrero, is a fervent defender of the “Muface direct” model, in which the state would directly pay hospitals and private consultations.
In its resources, to which elDiario.es had access, the association considers “that the regulatory documents of the contract in question are contrary to the legal order and harm the legitimate rights and interests of health professionals”.
While waiting to know the final resolution, unlike Muface, several insurers attended the Mugeju and Isfas concerts for the years 2025 and 2026. Concretely, Adeslas and Asisa wish to continue providing assistance to military and judicial officials, to whom Nueva Mutua Sanitaria also opts. In total, each of the mutual societies serves 92,000 and 560,000 beneficiaries and family members respectively.
The Mutuelle de Justice, dependent on this ministry, published a message on its website this Friday indicating that it had been notified of the suspension of the procedure. In the note, he informs his beneficiaries that the organization is “already working to plan the measures to be adopted so that, in any case and always according to the regulations in force, there is no harm” for the group.
The president of the Independent Trade Union and Civil Service (CSIF), Miguel Borra, announced this Friday a “major mobilization” for the next day 14 in front of the General Directorate of Muface. The objective is to force the executive to reach an agreement with private insurers, who have already rejected an increase in premiums of 17%, the largest in historical series, but which the companies consider insufficient.
At an event organized by the New Economy Forum, Borra also highlighted the problems in Mugeju and Isfas. In the first, he said, “three insurers have gone bankrupt, two remain and one is small”, which is why he regretted that “at present there are 35,000 civil servants of the justice, who find themselves having to change companies. .
While these two mutual societies depend on Justice and Defense, the Civil Service is trying to resolve the crisis with Muface, after the concert presented by the Government was deserted. The ministry modified the procedure and opened a period of preliminary consultations on Wednesday so that, within 10 days, companies could justify with evidence the price at which they would be prepared to provide the service, before submitting a new offer.
The UGT and the workers’ commissions considered this measure “adequate”. In a joint statement, the two unions asked for “speed” from the government and “responsibility” from insurers, to conclude an agreement that will bring more than a million people out of uncertainty, including civil servants and their beneficiaries. Regardless, the government has conveyed a message of tranquility, assuring that they will continue to benefit from the benefit as before, even with an extension that obliges Adeslas, Asisa and DKV to continue providing the service in the same terms.
Borra, for his part, calculated that the new tender could go “beyond” January, with the finalization of the previous contract, for 2022, 2023 and 2024, which, in practice, would mean the extension envisaged by the ministry. “If you want the model to continue, you should have started working earlier,” he criticized during his speech, in which he indicated that, even if he wants to “believe that there is no has no plan to put an end to mutual societies”, are “many signs indicating that “the best exists”.
The Ministry of Health, which has no power in the matter, published a report in which it considers that, “in the current context”, the “possibility of integrating the mutualist population into public health care” is “one option at a time”. viable as well as reasonable. The Civil Service, for its part, assures that this is not the project.
