Founded in 1975, Muface represents the healthcare system of choice for hundreds of thousands of civil servants across Spain. This hybrid system allows civil servants to choose between public or private healthcare, helping to decongest the public system by diverting patients to private entities. Thanks to this model, Affiliates were able to receive prompt, personalized attention without contributing to the increase in public health waiting lists. In Madrid, it is estimated that around 50% of civil servants opt for private healthcare, which significantly reduces the burden on public centers.
However, in recent years, Muface’s financing and management model is under scrutiny from a government that intends to end this health system.. Growing budgetary pressure and the revaluation of public services have opened the debate on the viability of maintaining this system.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso suggested that the relevant ministries must reach an agreement and repair “this mess that has raised the Government of Pedro Sánchez“.
The president of the Community of Madrid, Diaz Ayusoindicted this Thursday against the Minister of Health, Mónica García, for “playing with the concerns and health” of civil servants, seeking to “collapse the public system”.
“Here, as in all of Spain, there is a lack of doctors and the public and private health system can no longer cope, because they can no longer cope with population growth and aging of it. And that is why we must prepare for the future, but we have a minister who still only acts as a trade unionist”, launched the regional leader during the Plenary Assembly following a question from the spokesperson on Muface. popularCarlos Diaz-Pache.
For Ayuso, García “the only thing he is doing is playing with the concerns and health of millions of citizens and civil servants because you have to know that one and a half million civil servants “They’re going to be able to lose their aid.” In this sense, he argued that “1.5 million civil servants could lose their health care.”
“This means that the Community of Madrid, which in 2023 had 125,000 new health cards, would have to face approximately 236,000 simultaneously. That is, they seek to collapse the public system, including in the health field, to blow us up in Madrid,” he explained.
According to him, “those who carry the banner” seek, “as they do with the University”, to shatter the “public“. “I make friends, set up beach bars and destroy the crowd. They constitute a caste and a power against the citizen, against the individual, against the patient, against the student. “They don’t respect titles, they don’t respect anything, because they think they are above good and evil,” he said.
In this sense, he made them understand that they should “be ashamed” of doing this “in the Health Service”. “Furthermore, eliminating Muface would mean that between 35,000 and 39,000 families would take to the streets. So, please, the only thing we ask of you is that between ministries, even if they hate each other, for once they agree. “Let the Ministry of Health talk to the ministry which manages the public service and repair this mess, because all citizens will pay the costs,” he then indicated, while warning that the lists will “overflow” and will “get worse”. the quality of health care.
