On June 17 the Foundation presented the book Ateneu Barcelona ‘The left front of the Privatization of Health’ in front of about a hundred people.
Professor John Chalk was responsible for the presentation of the speakers: Gaspar Llamazares, coordinator and coautorde book, as well as Chairman of the Committee on Health Congress, Joan-Ramon Laporte, professor of pharmacology and director of the Foundation Catalan Institute of Pharmacology ; Angels Castles Martinez, an economist and president of the Association for Public Health Standing.
Llamazares’s intervention focused on the characterization of time cuts affecting our public health system under the false argument of unsustainability – “a strategy of propaganda” – the same as the Spanish government to argue before the system change pension. The Member of IU and doctor by profession he lamented that there was no further reaction to the policy adjustment and explained that the aim of his book is the result of a conference of parliamentary group of IU-ICV which took place at the beginning of the crisis is dismantling the argument of unsustainability of the public health and demonstrate that there are outputs. Thus, the collective work is divided into 3 main parts: the first discusses the privatization of the health system, which was opened by Llamazares step with little resistance, the second part examines specific cases, such as comparative models management in the regions or the case of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, and the end lies the question about the agreement that state health IU asked Congress to strengthen the public health system and recalled that as his deputy, and then they burst CIU President ‘popular’ Galician, the same but now the demand for change and implement the mixed model as in the Nordic countries, where precisely what has been ‘rescue’ was the private.
Moreover, Llamazares said the funding cut is an autonomous attack because the state seeks to reduce social services. Thus, the deputy left insisted that we have a background attack against the welfare state and a contrary state and federal social adjustment, while “the nationalist parties have put forward for his soul before the neoliberal autonomic heart.”
Now entering the second wave of crop health, Llamazares said that only attaches importance to the cost, nobody cares about the policy because they do not want to touch the income tax policies, and this creates a problem of inequality. Deputy UI resorted to OECD data show that the Spanish health expenditure is sustainable, for example, is expected to spend half that in 2060 the whole of the EU, and also shows that aging population is the last influencing health expenditure, there are over income and health determinants, totaling 75% of spending, then comes the pharmaceutical expenditure and finally aging people.
In conclusion, what is at issue is the false argument of calling the rescue of the health system and raised to be accepting the cuts in fact “amputation of the public health system” in the words of in-Llamazares this alerted the introduction of co-payment, and that aim to make a new model that will be neither universal nor accessible.
The coordinator of ‘The left front of the Privatization of Health’ denounced the “dual system within the system” is intended to impose private fostering mutual – “nitxos business interests who do not want to touch” – when based system should be the primary care and public health.
When the turn of Professor Joan Ramon Laporte, it took the recent debate in the Parliament of Catalonia to charge against the so-called ‘Omnibus Law’ CiU government, which “provides for the fragmentation of the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS) and opens the way towards the elimination of hundreds of small public companies “to introduce private activities in public schools. For Laporte, this will break a basic principle of the public, the universality and equity, will double the waiting lists and also affect the quality standards in care. In short, the effect of the new law al’ICS, where 40,000 people work, is “a breakdown of how democratic and public control,” according to Laporte, for whom the system must be owned by citizens and convinced of this, called to build it.
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The third speaker, Angel MartÃnez Castells, began his speech highlighting that “the health and social services are still the glue that provides cohesion” at a time to attack everything the community. The chairman of the Standing Public Health showed the coincidence with the demands of the health committee of the camping place Catalonia, which has demanded the withdrawal of several articles of the Omnibus Act to allow the privatization of the ICS ( case of Article 233, referring to the use of goods for third-profit).
Thus, Professor of Economics also reported an increase in the single thought and, consequently, the increasing commercialization of the system and the fact that public services are measured by the prices when taxes must be financed. And against this backdrop, Martinez Castles claimed under its protection, ethics, reflection on the year of the everyday, and living with values. ”
Finally, he opened a round of speeches and questions to the speakers where they express the experiences and current problems of workers and professionals in the health sector and reflected on the need to address from civic unity in a new model that wants to take away the rights conquered.
