DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

News analysts spent the weekend giving more explanations on the diverse rackets that impacted the state government insurance plan, Senasa. The details of the complicity of Senasa officials with private companies and the diverse schemes and enormous volume of irregular transactions have been coming to the open for the first time. The Abinader administration first had denied the difficulties, attributing the financial deficit to the more than two million affiliates added at the start of the Abinader administration. Yet, now the evidence of the complicities with Senasa insiders is appalling.

Business and news analysts Esteban Delgado and Jairon Severino looked into several reasons behind the current Senasa deficit scandal. Delgado explained several of the schemes that have led to the financial collapse of the state health insurance plan that has more than seven million affiliates.

Among...