Concern of health entrepreneurs about possible nationalization of the system

While the Government is taking a series of drastic measures to contain the advance of the coronavirus pandemic, some health workers are beginning to generate discomfort because they consider the nationalization of the health system to be possible.

This is because in a teleconference that he held with several deputies, the Minister of Health, Ginés González García, anticipated a project in this regard.

“We are going to send a Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) to declare of public interest all of Argentina’s health resources. We are not going to discuss ownership. It may be state or private, but we believe that it must behave equally for all Argentines, “said the Health Minister. And he turned on the alarms.

“We want each jurisdiction to rationally understand that all Argentines have the resources they have to have,” González García insisted.

Although the decision seems to be made, the project is not yet closed. In this way, the Ministry of Health called a meeting, for this Thursday at noon, to polish details directly with employers.

In principle, if progress is made as the government intends, it would have the power to decide where each new person infected with coronavirus is referred throughout the country, regardless of whether that health center belongs to the public or private health system. Thus, from the business sector they indicate their disagreement because someone without any type of coverage could be treated in a private clinic and, in return, a prepaid subscriber could be treated in a public hospital.

For the business sector, which covers 70 percent of the population through social and prepaid works, this measure would end “pre-existing law” and some even doubt “constitutionality”.

In addition, many wonder what will happen after this emergency situation that the pandemic presents. Consequently, they do not rule out filing legal injunctions.

Jorge Cherro, president of the Association of Clinics, Sanatoriums and Private Hospitals of the Argentine Republic (Adecra) and vice-president of the Argentine Union of Health (UAS), expressed his concern in dialogue with Infobae. “We will go to the meeting with the Minister to listen.

We still do not know if it is true that a DNU will be issued so that the State has the use of public or private clinics, but they cannot ask us for more effort than what we are doing, which is to serve 70% of the population. We have obligations to social work, PAMI, prepaid medicine and the people who pay their fees, “said Cherro, who will be one of the seven leaders of the private sector who will attend the meeting with González García at 1:00 p.m.

In his contact with the deputies, the head of the health portfolio had indicated that they hope to add “between 1,500 and 2,000 intensive care beds between the public and private systems” and recalled other initiatives that the State has been taking, such as banning the export of essential supplies in this context, like respirators.

“Since we started, we distributed 196 respirators and now this weekend there will be about 140 more. We have all the reagents we could get. Comparatively with any country we are less bad than the rest. I cannot say anything more because this has to I have not had any type of financing problem, “González García completed.

On the other hand, in the framework of the agreement signed between the Buenos Aires Government and the Social Work of Truck Drivers, to use the Antarctic Sanatorium in the care of patients with coronavirus, Hugo Moyano marked the field.

The union leader assured that these beds “are not for truckers, but for Buenos Aires,” highlighting the intention of Alberto Fernández, who had very complimentary words to him, to have the entire health system regardless of the different coverage.

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