Prepaid forecast losses
Thursday, August 11th, 2011“In August, all prepaid will lose between 3% and 4% of that bill.” One of the main entrepreneurs forward to this day what the balance in private medicine.
This occurs within weeks, according to Health Ministry sources-that is regulated Private Medicine Act, which once was harshly criticized by employers. According to the versions circulating, the ministry headed by Juan Manzur with the regulations could soften some of the most controversial aspects of the law.
The companies insist they are being treated unfairly in relation to social work unions: so far this year, the government authorized a rise of 9.5% in the pre-paid fees, but did not put any limit on what they perceive unions, as many joint closed with gains of up to 30% dues increase at the same rate.
For now there rises on the horizon for customers of private medicine: Currently, the system has about 4.5 million people serving their health through prepaid, of which 60% are “deregulated” or persons whose union has an agreement with a company to serve its members. Only 40% pay their dues directly.
“We receive few or no complaints from this area when we apply the changes approved by the government,” says another employer for the category. ”We never had a single loss of affiliation fee increases.”
The clinics and clinics serving clients in the private system so do social work with, bringing the total number of patients to 22 million people, the rest (or almost half the population of Argentina) goes to public hospitals. In the structure of prepaid costs, 80% is in staff costs (own and professionals from the primer).
In the meetings that are keeping the team Manzur, the entrepreneurs argue again the same as presented when discussing the law in Congress to admit a patient with a preexisting condition is unfair to those who come to pay their dues from years, to be subsidized (the State will be asked to cooperate in such cases).