The should change rapporteurs upon the return of the work of the , amid the assessment of parliamentarians from the center that the current person responsible for the opinion, deputy Duarte Jr. (PSB-MA), tried to have excessively pro-consumer positions.
Duarte Jr., who was president of Procon do Maranhão, says he is not worried about losing the rapporteur and states that he met several demands from health plan operators — he denies, for example, that obstacles are created to verticalization (own network) .
The impasse persists more than seven months after the government promised measures to end it in the country. A, with and without compatible alternatives.
The change should occur when work resumes in the Chamber, after the election for the Board of Directors, scheduled for February 3rd. The expectation is that the new rapporteur will be deputy Dr. Luizinho (PP-RJ), doctor and former Secretary of Health of Rio de Janeiro. A new text must be discussed in a special commission.
Among the points that can be incorporated are the expansion of plan types to increase the user base and, thus, try to lower costs. Some options generate resistance, such as the possibility of the user having access to consultations and exams, but not hospitalizations.
Duarte Jr. has already presented an opinion in September 2023, consolidating around 270 projects that suggested changes to the Health Plans Law. With the worsening of the crisis of unilateral terminations, he held meetings with operators.
“It has become absurd for some companies to say that they are not economically interesting and will go bankrupt. It doesn’t exist,” says Duarte Jr. “How do you pay for a health plan to have access to a consultation, an exam, where a company obliges itself to provide this service and then says that if it complies with that it will go bankrupt? That’s crazy.”
“I’m simply wanting them to fulfill what they spontaneously made themselves available to the consumer to do. Are you going to say that this is going to go bankrupt? That’s greed, that’s evil. Taking away health insurance from those who are elderly, those who are disabled and who is paying to have this additional assistance.”
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