One year after the end of the public-private partnership in Loures – only PPP remains in the Cascais hospital – Iniciativa Liberal and Chega want to apply this management model again in general, but the left will fail on Thursday in your proposals.
In the debate on the initiatives, liberal Joanna Cordero stressed that the government has ended public-private partnerships in Braga (2019), Vila Franca de Xira (2021) and Lores (2022), “although the Board of Auditors has shown that they are fully integrated into the SNS [Serviço Nacional de Saúde]which was more efficient than the average of the generally managed hospitals which have more demanding quality standards.”
The court also recorded that they represented “a saving for the state of €203 million” and “recommended their continuation”. The Liberal MP defended that access to health care was “now threatened” for these users, and there was no justification for not going back and extending the same model to other hospitals where it has been shown that “there are advantages”.
Pedro Melo López, of the PSD, said he was concerned about the “imbalance” of the half of the population who turned to the special services and that “the big scale of the new executive board of the SNS is just the creation of half a dozen ULS [unidades locais de saúde]On the basis of existing hospitals rather than creating more services.
For the complex, Pedro Felipe Soares sneered at the “public-private partnership wonder collection” noting that Braga, for example, sent patients to Porto because “they were too expensive” and imposed fines for non-compliance with contractual obligations; Cascais also rejected the specialties of oncology, infectious diseases and psychiatry. “In the real world, liberalism does not work. (…) There are 111 hospitals in Portugal and in PPP there were only four.” But he attacked PS, who accuse him of handing over half of health funding to the private sector and not implementing PPPs just because the private sector doesn’t want to.
He accused the communist João Dias of the right to continue wanting to privatize health and destroy social communication services and lamented that professionals in the public sector did not have working conditions to respond to patients’ needs. “The purpose of public-private partnership is profit, while the profit of public administration is the health of the population.”
Socialist Luis Soares has left another who rejects the various “myths” referred to by other parties. He said that there is no ideological bias in not renewing the partnership between the public and private sectors and that it is the private sector that does not want to renew it; This performance was lower than that of general hospitals. He explained that the position of the Socialist Party is the position of “balance”. “The state must guarantee health, in addition, as stipulated in the Basic Law and the Basic SNS System, it must resort to cooperation with the private and social sectors.”
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