The prepaid companies are already sending emails to their members with the increases in April fees, which
start at 16%
, as announced by Medicus.
If the rest follows the pace, it will be the fourth consecutive increase, with a cumulative increase of
160% in four months
.
Retirees are the group visibly hardest hit and
most active against this increase
in the cost of private medicine.
Thus, the cataract of appeals presented by older adults who cannot afford the cost of keeping their membership credential active is growing and there are already at least 7 court rulings that granted them precautionary measures to stop these updated bills.
Only in the Federal Justice of San Martín, a pioneer in the Province in giving support to this claim,
Clarín
confirmed that
another 12 precautionary measures
are about to be presented and drawn by older adults.
In this context, the national government began to mark its position regarding this sensitive discomfort in society.
From the Ministry of Health of the Nation, they defend, even in the case of retired members, the
freedom of prepaid members
to decide their increases without prior authorization from the Supeintendence of Health Services, a body that eliminates the DNU of President Javier Milei.
The justification is that not only will the free market do its thing in the free rein of competition for clients, but the State will efficiently support retirees who eventually fall out of the private health system.
"In this new stage, the frameworks for greater and better competitiveness were generated with the aim of improving the quality of services from both the private sector and the public sector, redefining the powers of the national and provincial States, and making it more
efficient the management of PAMI,
dedicating all its resources to improving its benefits for the benefit of retirees," Health sources said.
In the midst of the discomfort of the affiliated retirees, they highlight that there is a diagnosis that cannot be ignored and that
has been going on for more than 30 years
, with financing and operational problems, "where the public health system
has not been providing a good service
which caused retirees who were able to do so to turn to prepaid in search of better care.
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