The General Mutuality of Civil Officials of the State (MUFACE) is in a critical moment. The government, which saw Adeslas, Asisa and DKV rejected the proposed tender on the table, A market consultation began on November 20 to prepare a new tender for the coming years.
The objective of this consultation is know that insurers would be interested in entering the concert and what should be the costs to be paid for the Executive to have their presence. Therefore, the Government has asked all insurers a scale on the estimated annual costs per mutualist, to guide what the economic costs of maintaining MUFACE should be.
The objective of the government
The demands of insurers tend to be very different. The duration and cost of premiums are disparate according to the insurerwhich can generate a problem when specifying a second tender that, this time, if it agrees.
According to sources close to the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Public Function, The new tender could arrive at the Minister Council next weekdue to the urgency that exists for closing an agreement before the end of the previous concert.
Deadline of the previous concert
Mutualists who are insured with Asisa, Adeslas and DKV They can access this private health until January 31. However, this will not be so for everyone. Insurers will provide assistance to this date whenever they are health processes already initiated or very seriouswhile the new citations that do not have an urgency character They will be rejected. This means that, in the event that some mutualist wants to access their private health but it is not something urgent, its appointment will be after December 31 (expiration date of the contract), which implies that it will not be treated.
Given this problem, Unions have called demonstrations for December 11 denouncing the precariousness of the situation and the fear of losing mufface.
For its part, the government has already confirmed its intention to maintain mutuality as it may. “The government does not have any of its plans to disassemble MuFace. We want to convey tranquility. We will go to a new tender. Insurers will continue to provide their services in current conditions until there is a new concert“They say from Moncloa.
An extension as a last resort
In case of not specifying a new concert, The government leaves an extension as the last option. However, this possibility It might not be feasible because there are deadlines in the presentation of the offer that have not been fulfilled.
Therefore, today a countdown begins to know that it will hold Muphaz and all insured officials.
Health wants to eliminate mutuality
And all this happens in a context in which the Ministry of Health led by Mónica García proposes the elimination of the general mutuality of state civil officials. According to a report sent by the Ministry, The most logical thing is to end mutuality being an “unsustainable” organism. The intention of the minister is to incorporate in nine months the entire mutualist population into public health, which means that more than one and a half million people access public health.
To carry out the change of officials from one system to another, The Government would allocate the financing that currently provides insurers to the Autonomous Communitieswith the aim of investing it in regional health services. In total there would be 2,681 million euros that would reach the coffers of the Autonomous Communities.
This transition would be made in a form scaled by order of surname, age and insurance to avoid collapse in public health.