Marios Themistokleous responded to what SYRIZA PS President Stefanos Kasselakis said about the public health system of Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis in his previous position.
Deputy Health Minister Marios Themistokleous responded to what SYRIZA PS President Stefanos Kasselakis said earlier about Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis’ statements regarding the public health system.
It all started with the statements made by the Minister of Health during his visit to the Kalymnos hospital as part of his visit to the hospitals of the Twelve Islands.
In his statements, the Minister of Health noted, among other things, that “The public health system is not only a state system. The public system is the entire world of medicine, public and private. We all have a common goal together.”
This statement prompted a reaction from Stefanos Kasselakis, who wrote:
“What health minister can make the statement: ‘The public health system is not only a government system, but a private system’?”
Who but Adonis Georgiadis could be so immune to decency?
In addition to the illiteracy highlighted in his statement (public law professors are tearing up their degrees these days), key questions arise:
Only Greek citizens with public insurance can now go to private hospitals and private clinics free of charge, because they also – according to Georgiadis – belong to the public health system?
Personally, I chose public insurance ONLY in our country as a practical vote of confidence and support for our doctors, nurses and the superhuman efforts they make every day against the Georgiadis-Mitsotakis system to completely discredit and destroy public health.
What insurance did the Prime Minister and Health Minister really choose?
The real public one, or the private one publicly baptized by the Minister of Absurdity today?
If they believe in public health care, they should follow my lead and cancel any private insurance they have.”
To answer for Marios Themistokleous from his side:
“Lessons in Health Policy. The first part
The National Health System is mainly a mixed system, i.e. a Beveridge-type system where funding comes from the state budget (Hospitals – Health Centers) (e.g. British NHS) and a Bismarck-type system where health services are paid for (e.g. Germany) are applied. insurance funds.
In us, that is, if a citizen chooses to go to a hospital-health center with a state structure, he has no additional participation, if he receives health care from a private institution, his insurance organization pays most of the costs ( EOPYY ) and he participates, for example, in diagnostic tests at a rate of 15%. So, in any case, the state pays most of the costs related to health care services. And in medicine, does a large number of citizens participating in the price (eg 25%) mean that the government does not pay for medicine?
This statement was made to emphasize that private providers (companies, foundations, businessmen and other individuals) have obligations to the state, as they carry out their largest turnover through the EOPYY insurance organization. If you don’t agree, I’d suggest you first contact the public law and health policy professors you claim teach social policy courses.”