Month: February 2012

MADRID, 24 ( EUROPA PRESS) The left parliamentary group Plural formed by IU, ICV-EUiA and CHA, has submitted a Bill to ensure that the management and administration of the centres, services and establishments of the National system of health ( SNS) is publicly owned, and also only to be agreements with private non-profit and always uniquely and entities “need of justification”. Thus emerges from the text referred to the Bureau of the lower House for debate in the plenary, which are intended to amend the current law 15/1997 of 25 April, on new forms of management of the national system of health empowerment. The initiative responds to the “widespread campaign” made in recent years in some communities to “discredit and dismantle” public health, introducing “new forms of business management” that, “with the excuse of innovate”, seeking to “privatize public health systems and a business opportunity”. And, according to warns the Plural left, “the big losers of these changes will be citizens”, since “will worsen the quality of health services and privatized models have much higher costs”. Therefore, in its proposition of law opt for a policy change that “agreements or agreements with private entities are of a residual character and so exclusively with those non-profit”. “Should be exceptions to the rule of governance directly and, therefore, need specific justification for admission,” reads the proposal. , Explained in this initiative,...