Insurance is “turning out better than ordered”

The country’s aging: an urgent topic that has been ignored. What if the opposition parties got together and moved forward?

The warning was given, or reinforced, by Antonio José Seguro: Portugal’s is an urgent problem and needs to be analyzed now.

“Manuel Lemos, president of União das Misericórdias, calls it a social tsunami, I have used the image of time bomb, but we both draw attention to the dramatic effects of demographic changes in our country and the increased pressure of aging on the health and social security sectors, two areas in which we are already experiencing critical situations”, commented the President of the Republic.

Although he already understands that not all of his repairs should be classified as critical, Seguro stressed at the same time that he will continue to speak out: “I will not hide any reality and I will say it out loud what I consider to be important and what the country must have.”

The warning about aging, combined with the recent warning about storms, gives rise to new compliments to the still recent head of state.

difficult cause

Judite França begins by saying that this is a president who “chooses a cause what is difficult (aging) and will transform it into one of the flags of the mandate”.

Made one “good diagnosis”, Since Portugal, in addition to a very aging population (one of the oldest in the world, soon), has a lack of places in nursing homes, private homes are very expensive.

It’s a country “bursting at the seamsa problem that everyone saw for many years, but that no one dealt with in time”.

The radio commentator highlights a strong phrase from the President of the Republic: “The solidarity of civil society cannot replace the responsibility of the State, which is the first responsibility”.

President of the Republic does not create laws, does not act in concrete terms. It has symbolic power, without executive responsibility. But there is here “an influential judiciary that can point out paths and underline it several times. I think this work has been done in a assertive by the President of the Republic”.

Swapped priorities

Anselmo Crespo sees the issue of the country’s aging as a paradigmatic example of “how political priorities They are often not properly aligned with the country’s needs.”

There has been talk about labor reform for almost a year, followed by months of discussion around the Single Social Benefit (PSU).

These are important topics, but… “If aging is not urgent, I don’t know what is urgent, honestly. At the moment, there are almost 200 elderly people for every 100 young people in the country. This number is particularly impressive”, he highlights.

When debating the state of Health in Portugal, “we are not aware that many of these problems that currently impact the National Health Service are problems that Social Security should have resolvedit should be solving it and it isn’t.”

“There is no answer and the problem is getting worse and is being galloping”, alert, while the private answer exists (although it is increasingly sought after) but with very high prices, reaching 4 thousand euros per person per month.

The President of the Republic “basically not only does the right thing by raising this issue and not letting go of this issue, but I hope he will not be alone in this debate, because the opposition parties are also useful for this”.

And here comes a suggestion from Anselmo Crespo for Opposition parties: come together and move forwardthey changed something. “Since the government is more concerned with other issues…”.

“This topic is absolutely urgent and is, above all, one of those cotton tests on the way in which we treat with more or less dignity people who are in a situation like these who are currently lying on a hospital bed waiting for a response”, laments the commentator.

Better than ordered

Another commentator, António Costa, summarizes: “Firstly, I want to say that António José Seguro is doing better than expected. I think you can say that after these months. But in the exercise of politics it is always good to say “until now”…”.

Costa reinforces that it is important for aging to “be in the media and political discussion” – because Portugal “is not a country for old people either”.

“Because older people don’t have the money to go to a private residence, they don’t have a family environment that allows support. With health problems, they have a big problem, because hospitals have difficulty receiving and maintaining them.”

“Obviously, hospitals are also not supposed to be places to keep people after they have had their treatments”, he analyzes.