Muface will publish this Wednesday on the public markets platform a “preliminary market consultation”. Within ten days, as sources from the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Civil Service explained to laSexta, interested insurers – and not just the three who rejected the proposed call for tenders by the government – will be able to propose prices for the service they would provide, with justification of the costs. This information will be used by the wallet for Muface to prepare a new competition.
Digital Transformation and the Public Service wish to bring “transparency, efficiency and fairness” to the new call for tender process and are convinced that this consultation with the insurance sector will make it possible to know under what conditions and at what cost the information that the companies are ready to provide health care to members.
In the meantime, the current agreement will be extendedwithout this causing any harm or interruption in their assistance to civil servants. The insurers, with the extension, will continue to provide the service at the previous price, without the increase that they refused.
On November 5, the deadline for insurers to submit their offers to renew the concert with Muface expired. None of the three organizations currently providing healthcare – Adeslas, DKV and Asisa – considered the government’s offer sufficient.
From the department headed by Óscar López, they highlight the effort to offer “the largest increase in the premium in history, 17.2% compared to the average of 4.4% in recent years”, and regret that the Muface concert was deserted for the first time, although they point out that this is not unusual in public markets.
Ministerial sources explain to LaSexta that this scenario “forces us to open up a reflection on the future of mutuality”. This would involve civil servants choosing to be, once and for all, in the common or special regime, in order to plan the future sustainability of the system. And for this they would also rely on the conclusions of the next Airef report.
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