Government threatens ARS

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National Social Security Council president Jose Ramon Fadul has warned the private health insurers (ARS) that they could have their licenses canceled if they challenge the government's health plan, the SFS. He is quoted in Hoy as saying that the ARS do not own the country even if they run an industry with transactions worth more than RD$16 billion per year. He said the ARS should be regulated and specified that there are only two or three of them that would like to see the system collapse. According to Fadul, the ARS are only worried about their profitability.

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