In the coming days, health care delivery companies will give the green light to the fourth consecutive increase above double digits. The Stipulated increases will be between 16 and 19%according to each company, according to the Noticias Argentinas agency.
For what is this? According to representatives of the main companies in the sector, the increase that will arrive next month has its explanation in the decree of necessity and urgency. 70/2023 dictated by Milei last December, in which, in addition to enabling deregulation, it ordered the creation of a new tax.
Prepaid bills will increase another 20% in April due to a new tax from Javier Milei
The new tax burden is twenty% on the additional payments that a worker pays for a plan that exceeds the one offered by his social work. According to the La Politica Online site, it is estimated that its application will be accompanied by a retroactivity to the month of December.
The destination of the money collected by the companies will go to the Solidarity Redistribution Fund (FSR)which aims to guarantee coverage of the Mandatory Medical Plan (PMO) – that is, the minimum benefits – to all members of the system, in addition to compensating extraordinary costs for special benefits or complex treatments.
Currently, union social works (OSS) contribute 15% to the FSR. From now on, prepaid companies must accompany the OSS with a 20% contribution. From private health companies they question the new tax because it was created by a decree and not through Congress, as stipulated by law.
Complaints in the prepaid medicine sector about the new tax
Claudio Belocopitt, businessman in the sector, expressed his rejection of the measure. “Beyond the fact that we agree with deregulation and believe that it will be an advantage for the people, when we read the decree we saw a very technical issue which is that social works contribute to what is called the Solidarity Redistribution Fund, 15% if they are union members and 20% if they are management of the contribution they receive from the workers,” he said first. in dialogue with the program The jungle law by C5N
He then attacked the FSR, which he described as “a fund that clearly does not work” and asked “journalists and politicians to see how this fund works”, raising doubts about its usefulness.
“We think Milei has to look at this because it goes against what he thinksbecause we are creating a fund that is once again a giant box, which will also be managed by the caste, because it will be managed by politics, which has worked very badly until now and we are going to make it much bigger and it will work worse “, he noted, adding that “I think there may be a good intention and I would like it to be discussed technically.”
With the new increase, private medicine will have its fourth consecutive increase above double digits. This increase is added to the 40% in January, 27% in February and 20% in March.
Source: Ambito
