MADRID, 14 (EUROPA PRESS)
El 82 percent from officials benefiting from the General mutuality of officials civil State (Muface), some 1.271.459 people, has opted voluntarily in 2012 healthcare private, compared to 18 percent remaining that has opted to receive the provision health through affiliation to the National Social Security Institute to.
Thus emerges from the data collected by the Institute for the development and integration of the health (IDIS), shown as “the coverage of private management is that best answer provides users, according to its Secretary general, Juan Abarca.
In the model Muface, the mutual insurance associations officials concluded the provision of health care with private insurance entities and the National Social Security Institute (INSS), paying to concerted entities share charity through a monthly per person protected premium.
From there, are themselves the State officials who choose freely and voluntarily if they wish to be cared for by the national system of health (SNS) or by an insurer.
For Abarca, the preferred choice of private health is due to the “welfare advantages” that offers, such as freedom of choice of doctor, lists of waiting, technological strength, and so on, as well as “other non-covered benefits in Social Security”, such as the root canals or optics.
Also points out that this must be added that “its cost is 30 percent less than the of the national system of health and without the possibility of borrowing”.
The general Secretary of the IDIS recognizes that the mutuals are a “model essential for the maintenance of the private health system”, especially in provinces, allowing “to maintain a balance in the supply of the public health system.””Alone only is not enough to absorb the demand health”, warns Abarca.
