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12-03-2008, 03:30 PM
Jose Manuel Vargas, president of the Dominican Health Risk Administrators Association (ADARS) says that it is not financially feasible to include AIDS patients in the social security program because this would entail an estimated annual cost of RD$315,000 per person. He estimates that if 80,000 AIDS patients were integrated into the system that would total RD$13.54 billion per year. Director of the Presidential Council on Aids (COPRESIDA) Gustavo Rojas says that if social security payments were increased by RD$5 this would enough to cover the entrance of patients into the system.
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