NewsWhore
08-13-2008, 02:50 PM
Three Health Service Insurers (ARS) -- Humano, Colonial and Monumental -- have gone before the Contentious and Administrative Court with an appeal designed to protect their clients that work in government. In a paid announcement in today's El Caribe, and other papers, the three insurers explained that they are trying to preserve their clients' right to affiliation with the ARS of choice. The companies have gone to court after the National Health Service (Senasa), a competing ARS, said it wants to cover all government employees.
Spokesmen for the three ARS say that the Constitution clearly establishes that all Dominicans are equal before the law and it condemns all privileges and all situations affecting this equality. The petitioners say that the Constitution also establishes the freedom to choose, one of the fundamental rights of Law 87-01 that regulates Social Security. Since public servants are also taxpayers, and pay exactly the same quotas as employees of private firms, they therefore have the same right to choose the ARS that they prefer. Finally, the petitioners indicate that Law 358-05, on Consumer Rights and Protection, establishes the client's right to choose freely the products and services according to his or her own criteria.
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Spokesmen for the three ARS say that the Constitution clearly establishes that all Dominicans are equal before the law and it condemns all privileges and all situations affecting this equality. The petitioners say that the Constitution also establishes the freedom to choose, one of the fundamental rights of Law 87-01 that regulates Social Security. Since public servants are also taxpayers, and pay exactly the same quotas as employees of private firms, they therefore have the same right to choose the ARS that they prefer. Finally, the petitioners indicate that Law 358-05, on Consumer Rights and Protection, establishes the client's right to choose freely the products and services according to his or her own criteria.
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