The IDIS relocate to Ana Mato “after Easter” his proposal to tax relief for private insurance

MADRID, 28 ( EUROPA PRESS)

The Minister of health, Social services and equality, Ana Mato, reunited “after Holy week” with those responsible for the Institute for the development and integration of health (IDIS), who take advantage of the occasion to raise his proposal to apply a tax relief to private Spain insurance.

This was announced on Wednesday the Secretary general of the IDIS, Juan Abarca, during the presentation of the report ' private health, providing value. Analysis of situation 2012 ', which updated data on private health care in Spain, the second European country where more invests in private health.

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, “the private health sector contributes to download and saving the public system”, because “relieves the public health through the activity carried out by private hospitals, which recorded in 2009 an increase of 1% in the high, an increase in surgical interventions of 2.5% and the urgencies of 5.2% compared to 2008”, said.

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Also means, as they explain to Mato,”savings”for the public Spanish health system because, given the model of health insurance private Spain (duplicate insurance), seven million policyholders with private policies used less or do not use the public health, what can be considered a hidden to the public system grant”, explains.

Said the Secretary general of the IDIS each user of a private health insurance generated annual savings to the public system close to 1,500 euros. This contribution from users, which may see as a sort of “voluntary copayment”, points out, would be strengthened if the Government would implement the tax deduction to the health costs of the private insurance.

For covers, “if apply this measure, the number of insured persons could increase up to 15 percent, to unload further to the public system in spending and use of resources without cutting the rights of patients”.

The IDIS hoped, however, that the number of people who hire private health insurance continue to rise, as it has done already by 0.6 per cent between the third quarter of 2010 and the third in 2011, from $ 8.78 million 8,83 million insured.

One of the reasons so expect to increase this recruitment is “fear the cuts” expected in public health, according to the President of the IDIS, Iñaki Ereño, who believes that, against the possible limitation of public health benefits, the citizen want to “cover the backs”.

Meanwhile, the IDIS goes ahead with the campaign that launched in December 2011 to ask for the support of individuals, institutions and companies for its proposal to implement a tax deduction to the insured private. So far, have achieved approximately 50,000 signatures – 31.700 individual and collective 20,000 – Web ' http://www.desgravacionfiscalsanitaria.org '.