Model muface may be in danger. If your financial health has not been the best, especially due to a lack of budget funds, a new factor is added: the appointment of Mónica Garcíamedical and political, as Minister of Health in the newly formed coalition government. The leader of Más Madrid, who must ensure compliance with the Sumar program, should aim to end this system.
Corresponding to the acronym General Mutuality of Civil Servants of Spain, Muface is an autonomous organization, dependent on the Ministry of Finance and Public Service, to which civil servants can join as a medical alternative to the national social security system. Now, as you learned from “The Objective,” his disappearance would be closer than ever: “Muface won’t have a trip with Sumar in good health”.
It should be recalled that this intention was already reflected in the Sumar program: “The inclusion of people who currently receive, within the framework of universal health insurance
provision of health care within private health mutual insurance companies (MUFACE, MUGEJU, ISFAS). We will integrate this population in a gradual, distributed and programmed manner under the provision of health care of the public health system.. Likewise, the possibility of local entities to carry out collective private insurance for their public employees will be removed,” it said.
Disappearance that comes from far away
Since Sumar, last October for Medical Writing, they also explained that their health goals will include “the progressive and gradual extinction of Mufacewith a transition process.” It is something already agreed upon in 2019 by Pablo Iglesias and Pedro Sánchez, who sealed the document that marked the end of the mutual insurance system in Spain.
On the other hand, mutual societies, unions and the private sector condemn it bankruptcy of this model, which would be doomed unless there is a larger budget allocation. In fact, the three main companies, DKV, Adeslas and Asisa, have a debt of more than 170 million euros in 2022.
If it goes away, some negative consequences are already being pointed out, as public health would have to take care of almost 1.5 million officials attached to Mufaca. Because of this, waiting lists (which are already a problem in themselves) are expected to increase, in addition to having to face additional costs. Other goals of Mónica García’s portfolio would be to create a public pharmaceutical company, increase investment and strengthen primary care and mental health.