Doctors and owners of medical clinics who oppose the nationwide startup of a primary care system are acting “irrationally”, in the words of former National Business Council (Conep) president Celso Marranzini. The opposing physicians and health care clinic managers argue that such a system violates the right of a free choice of medical attention by affiliates.
Marranzini said that if something has failed in the social security system it is because the doctors and clinics have stiffened their resistance to primary care units as the first level of healthcare.
Also sounding out on the situation where the Secretary-General of the National Union of Dominican Workers, Laureano Manzanillo and the president of the Institutional Central of Autonomous Workers, Rafael Castillo, who demanded the different sectors of the country to join forces to force the entry of the primary care system in the family health insurance.
The Dominican Medical Guild (CMD) is opposed to the implementation of primary care arguing that thousands of patients would no longer be able to use their insurance to continue care with their choice of medics, while the health providers would continue to collect on the insurance.
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El Nacional
El Nacional
12 November 2018
