He Ministry of Healthled by Mónica García, proposed to remove face and that, within nine months, civil servants whose health care depends on the private sector will be covered by public health. He did this in a study which, for now, will be ignored by Digital Transformation and Public Service. The department headed by Óscar López keep your plans to safeguard Muface with an express call for tenders.
The truth is that the socialist ministry refuses to evaluate the Health proposal, which has caused significant controversy in the sector. However, they indicate that the horizon that the Civil Service manages is not to eliminate Muface.
Their intention, they explain to EL ESPAÑOL, remains to launch, as soon as possible, a new Muface call for tenders sufficiently attractive for insurers to participate and not leave the public call for tenders empty again.
In fact, as this newspaper has already reported, those of Óscar López will not even wait for the Independent Authority for Budgetary Responsibility (AIReF) close the spending effectiveness report (expenditure review) which is preparing Muface, and which will be known throughout the month of December.
Remember that the call for tenders presented by the Civil Service for the new Muface concert will be the second, after no insurer participated in the one presented at the beginning of October and that includes an increase in premiums of 17.12%. Insurers demand to increase them by at least 40%.
The position of the first swords of Health against Muface has always been public, another thing is that they have powers to do it, which remain in the domain of Public Service.
Mónica García and her Secretary of State, Javier Padillashowed their reservations about the Muface model. And Padilla himself defended that the public system is capable of absorbing mutualists.
Today there is news regarding the MUFACE negotiations.
This is not our jurisdiction, but our position is well known.
Apparently my response has hampered some areas of private health care. I see it as quite descriptive and a truism, but 🤷♂️. pic.twitter.com/sOpLUAu00u
–Javier Padilla (@javierpadillab) October 2, 2024
“The current context means that, for the first time in many years, the possibility of integrating population mutual insurance into the public health system is both a viable and reasonable option“, details the Health analysis.
Thus, the ministry proposes that the 1.5 million civil servants who benefit from mutuality be transferred to the public system after a nine-month extension of the current agreement. For those of Mónica García, an improvement in the offer of the next concert is negative and they call it “insufficient, unsustainable and inequitable“.
Those in charge do not see things that way and warn: if the mutual fund and its health care are not maintained, they promise war. At least, mobilizations. Even the strikes.
This is what the Independent and Civil Service Trade Union Center (CSIF) indicates. “We are evaluating with our structures the extent of the mobilizations that will be carried out in the event that the Government does not offer an adequate response” to the Muface crisis: “demonstrations, strikes or even strikes in the public service“.
In fact, this union demands that “the Civil Service rectifies the ministry of Mónica García and presents a new call for tenders for the agreement with the insurers”.
The Spanish Federation of Associations of Higher Bodies of State Civil Administration (Fedeca) joins this demand. From this organization, they consider that the Health plan “adds to the list of events that have been published on this subject in recent days, adding uncertainty and confusion on an issue as relevant and delicate as health.
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“Turning off Muface would mean for the government getting rid of a problem and returning it multiplied to autonomous communities, competent in matters of healthand who are those who should face this avalanche of beneficiaries, without margin and without the necessary resources”, they add from Fedeca.
The IDIS Foundation also criticized the Health proposal. Warning that this would lead to the National Health System (SNS) would be unsustainable and would lead to an “exponential increase” in waiting lists sanitary.
But for the moment, the removal of Muface is not in the plans of the competent ministry, which is the Civil Service. However, Óscar López’s team still has to present a call for tenders for the coming years that would interest insurance companies. Muface’s future still hangs in the balance.
