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PCP leader summed up, “Things are resolved and glad.” Study shows that NHS is the health pillar in Portugal.
The PCP Secretary-General said today that the National Health Service (NHS) fulfilled its role “once again” by responding to arrival leader André Ventura, who if on Tuesday night.
“Things are resolved and thankfully. Just say that the National health service, once again, fulfilledas it should be, regardless of the opinions that each one has of the National Health Service, ”he said Paulo Raimundo, who spoke to journalists during a runaway in Moscavide, Loures municipality.
For the PCP Secretary-General, the episode in which André Ventura felt bad at a promium dinner in Tavira, having been admitted to the Faro Hospital, showed that “the National Health Service gave an answer as it always gives“.
“Regardless of money, color, whether or not to have insurance, the disease, regardless of the opinion that each one has about the National Health Service, [este] He answered and thankfully he did it, ”he added.
The president of the arrival abandoned today at 9:44 am The Hospital de Faro, eleven hours after being admitted to that hospital unit, following the sick while speaking.
The president of the arrival left the hospital by his own foot, accompanied by his personal security and made signal to journalists he would talk about later.
The hospital board’s chairman told journalists that André Ventura presented a “alteration of blood pressure” when he entered that health unit at 22:44 on Tuesday.
A structuring pillar
O SNS continues to be the “Structuring Pillar” of the health system In Portugal, despite the growing use of private and its relevance as an option for citizens, a study concludes today.
The analysis of researchers Carolina Santos and Pedro Pitta Barros, from Nova SBE, intended to understand how the different components of the health system work and how the responsibilities of the state, families and private entities are articulated and was referenced the origin of the funds used to pay health care (financing) and who provides such care (the benefit), concluding that, in financing, the financing, public sector maintains a central role, but families pay more and more.
Despite the percentage growth of private insurance of health, this “still maintains a limited relative weight In global financing, ”says the investigators.
A main source of financing of the Portuguese health system remains the “Public Insurance”guaranteed by the National Health Service (NHS). However -they refer -their preponderance lowered between 2000 and 2022, from 58.62% to 55.37% of the total.
The second most relevant source corresponds to direct payments made by families, whose proportion increased from 24.98% in 2000 to 29,65% In 2022, which reveals the increase in the financial effort of families.
In the last two decades, the financing guaranteed by subsystems such as the Adse It lost expression from 6.27% to 3.02%.
Still regarding funding, the study recalls that the “public insurance” component also has the particularity of tax deductions to the collection of IRS associated with household health expenses.
“The existence of this tax deduction means that part of the direct expense made by families is PAYED BY THE STATE (public sector) through the receipt of fewer taxes, ”he explains.
Investigators remind that when the NHS allows the use of private providers by the citizen, ensuring the payment (of exams, for example), the private sector has been appointed as complementary to the public sector, which consider it not entirely correct, because “the responsibility of the benefit is nonetheless to use the capacity contracted to the private sector, either to offer more options for the public sector.”
They also remember that the private sector in Portugal “assumes greater relevance In providing health care than in financing health care expenses ”, exemplifying with the percentage of expense in private providers.
In this area, the data show that by 2022 the percentage of the private sector in the installment was at 47.95% (50.86% in 2021) while in financing it was 27.62% (29.20% in 2021).
“O future From this articulation between sectors will depend on the ability to draw public policies that recognize existing tensions and interdependencies, without abdicating the fundamental principles that govern the NHS: universality, equity and solidarity, ”the researchers conclude.
The analysis was carried out by researchers Carolina Santos and Pedro Pitta Barros, as part of the initiative for social equity, a partnership between the ‘La Caixa’ Foundation, BPI and Nova SBE.
