The Minister of Health, Mónica García, announced that the government would repeal law 15/97 which allows the public-private collaboration in public health and a new rule should be approved in early 2026 which sets a “limit” to the pursuit of profit and which protects and protect in relation to “investment funds”, profit motive and predation” of the Spanish health system.
“It is a very broader integrity of the national health system. This does not prohibit public-private collaboration, but it limits what we can do with for-profit companies,” the minister commented this Sunday in an interview with “The country”.
In addition, García admitted that this new rule will “clearly” not allow the model of Alzira, Torrejón or the Jiménez Díaz Foundation to select has cheaper patients to obtain more profitability and hopes that it will be approved soon. “We are already finalizing it and we will present it to the Council of Ministers at the beginning of next year,” he said.
The minister regrets that “pervert” public-private collaboration in a “parasite”. “We are going to open all possible fronts. We are going to address, both as a ministry and as a political group Más Madrid of the Community of Madrid, to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for a crime of injuries against patients, because we believe there is clear harm here in the patient health”, insisted, after having read this week of information published by “The country” in which reveals the orders of the CEO of the Ribera health group, Pablo Gallart, in which he asks to reject unprofitable patients or processes.
García also urged the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to investigate what happened because it does not appear to be a businessmen fight. “No, look, ma’am, we’re not stupid. It’s a thorough investigation that I would have to do if I wasn’t interested,” he assured.
In this sense, he stressed that the Community of Madrid is indeed on the list of surgical wait and not in those of consultations and in those of diagnoses, nor in those of waiting times, nor in those of the number of patients waiting “because these two lists “They can’t wear makeup.” “We know that in December and June, when these lists are published, there is statistical engineering material,” he admits.
The minister recalls Ayuso’s mandate and considers that since she led the Community “public health waiting lists “They just keep growing.” “It is a system that is quite simple in concept and quite sophisticated in its execution. Since Ms. Ayuso has been there, it has increased twice as much: a million Madrilenians are waiting for a test, an absolutely unacceptable amount of time,” lamented the minister.
According to García, the number of people waiting more than six months has doubled compared to those offered “through the so-called free choice”go to hospitals like those in Quirón and Torrejón. “What we heard in Torrejón is what has been happening in Quirón for many years: a complex system by which patients in the public health They end up in private hospitals paid separately for a series of elements such as free choice, the waiting list and of course the connivance of the Ministry of Health,” he criticized.
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