With the presence of Minister of Health of the Nation, Mario Russothe General Secretary of the Presidency, Karina Mileiand the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menemthe first clinic with health voucher system. Its about new GO Sanatorium San Nicoláswhich began to implement this system under the name of Municipal Medical Insurance.
“The city of San Nicolás is the first place in the country to implement this system, through which Medical coverage will be provided to the almost 50,000 residents who do not have social work or prepaid medicinewhich represent a 30% of the local population“, they noted in a statement issued by the national health portfolio.
Likewise, to start this modality, national officials, together with the medical director of the sanatorium, Marisal Vico; the director of Grupo Oroño, Roberto Villavicencio; the former mayor of the town, Manuel Pasagglia; authorities of the municipality and medical staff of the institution toured the facilities “of the first public-private health center in Argentina.”
After congratulating the municipality for promoting the initiative and the Oroño Group, in charge of the administration of the new sanatorium, Russo highlighted: “We understand the State as an efficient, agile, and This experience summarizes our view from the Ministry of Health of the Nation.”.
At the same time, he assured that “our responsibility as a Nation is fundamentally stewardship, to set quality standards and protocols in the treatment guides,” and added that “the provinces have to take responsibility for their responsibility, as the Constitution says. , and the municipalities must work in coordination with the provinces and with the Nation, as you are doing.”
Furthermore, the minister announced that “next month we launch the digital recipefrom which the Nation will be able to find out what the disease burden from all over the country, traceability of medicines, and begin to have a robust database to be able to strategically plan where resources should be put and how to do it.” And he concluded: “We firmly believe in this synergy between the public and the private.”
According to the press release issued by the portfolio led by Russo, this system that began to be implemented in the Buenos Aires town of San Nicolás is called Municipal Medical Insurance. A mechanism that “It is implemented through a digital credential, using the user’s DNI as a member number, which allows control of care to avoid fraud.”.
In that sense, they highlighted that this digital credential works through the use of “token, like all social works, from the municipality’s website. “Through this system, The municipality is responsible for paying only for those medical services that the neighbor receives and that correspond to primary health care., the level that corresponds to the municipalities. That is, the municipality makes sure to subsidize demand and not supply, as promoted by President Javier Milei.”
“In this way, it puts only the resources on demand. The private sector invests in the supply of the rest,” said the head of the Chamber of Deputies in a message on social networks. The creation of this system, they indicated in the statement, “which works in countries like Canada and Spain, has to do with the decision of the local executive that all Nicolás residents have the freedom to seek care wherever they want.”
“In its initial stage, Medical Insurance is in force at the GO Sanatorio San Nicolás and Other clinics and private offices in the city that want to join the voucher system will soon join“, they highlighted in the writing and highlighted that, since 2022, when “the construction of the West Zone Hospital began in San Nicolás”, the municipality decided to “launch Medical Insurance, so the option of privatizing began to be considered. the administration of this center and cover with the Insurance only the latent demand”, being that the “Oroño group pays a rent (which is discounted from the care through the Medical Insurance), provides the latest technological medical equipment, hires the professionals and takes full care of its operation.”
