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12-12-2011, 01:00 PM
If the country continues to ignore management protocols and does not begin to comply with Law 87-01, the Social Security System will only have two more years of life. This grim prediction comes from Altagracia Guzman Marcelino, the National Health Insurance program (SENASA) director. She believes that the current conditions of the Social Security System make it economically unsustainable. According to Guzman, in the subsidized regime (part of the program for people in extreme poverty), the money is going on payments for high-cost illnesses, such as hypertension and kidney related ailments and on tests prescribed by doctors, often needlessly. "It is not necessary for everyone to have a lipid profile, a liver scan, a kidney profile... We have cases that called for thirty three tests to be done, and because of this I told them that if the system, of course, does not dedicate itself to discussing all these issues, the system, specifically the payroll deduction part, will last two more years, because it is not (economically) possible, or the affiliates are going to have to take money from their pockets (to pay for services)," she argued.
Taking part as the guest of honor at the weekly Dialogo Libre meeting, a series of interviews sponsored by the Omnimedia Group, she said that health care for the Dominican population has to be turned around, because if it is not done, it will be impossible to finance the system with quality. She stressed the need to educate the public in order to prevent diseases and illnesses and to prevent situations where people who suffer from a disease that is controllable experience a worsening in their condition for lack of monitoring.
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Taking part as the guest of honor at the weekly Dialogo Libre meeting, a series of interviews sponsored by the Omnimedia Group, she said that health care for the Dominican population has to be turned around, because if it is not done, it will be impossible to finance the system with quality. She stressed the need to educate the public in order to prevent diseases and illnesses and to prevent situations where people who suffer from a disease that is controllable experience a worsening in their condition for lack of monitoring.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)