N / s ‘Doctor for all’: Th. Plevris submitted additions and improvements

The changes announced by the discussion in the Committee on Social Affairs were presented by the Minister of Health Thanos Plevris at the beginning of the discussion of the draft law “Doctor for all, equal and quality access to the services of the National Organization for Health Services and Primary Health Care other provisions “in Plenary.

In particular, Mr. Plevris stated that they are deleted from article 4 of the bill as a quality criterion for the formation of political compensation of EOPYY to providers, that of “social action and contribution to local communities” and introduces the proposal made by his special speaker PASOK- KINAL George Fraggidis for the “degree of patient satisfaction”.

Also, in the improvements – additions, are included remarks that have been made by the bodies of the Dentists but also of POASY regarding the transfers of patients.

Article 51 concerning the “Possibility of recognizing patients ‘associations or associations as interlocutors of the State in matters of health services” will be added to the Ministerial Decision that ESAMEA and the Patients’ Union of Greece will be included by name and explicitly.

The Minister of Health presented the main points of the two amendments he has tabled:

Regarding the amendment concerning the pharmaceutical expenditure, he said that “for the outpatient expenditure, there will be a closed budget for the expensive medicines, in the logic that with the clow back that will be produced, this will burden the categories that are the most costly for the system. Respectively, there will be an additional rebate on expensive drugs by 5%, it is the polynomial that changes and has a bigger rebate, as well as 3% for the categories of drugs with high consumption in EOPYY. The “80-20″ is abolished, precisely because now Expensive medicines go on a closed budget, so they will not affect the budget of other medicines. 5 euros) where a scale is inserted to protect them and the weight is transferred to expensive drugs ”

Regarding the second amendment, tabled by the Minister of Health, he said that the main issue he regulates has to do with the prohibition of “conversion practices”. It was a request that we had and we processed it and it concerns some “fake” treatments that state that when a minor has chosen a different sexual orientation, his parents can supposedly perform “treatments” to “get back to normal”.

“Obviously,” the minister stressed, “these” treatments “are not only not treatments, but they are not supported at all scientifically and should have been explicitly prohibited for minors.” In fact, in the regulation we provide severe sanctions to those who, whether doctors or psychologists or other health specialties advertise that they do such “treatments”.

We believe that this regulation will be supported by all parties and I believe that there is no one who can support such practices today, said Mr. Plevris.