According to an economist’s calculations, a prepaid plan had risen in real terms by 59% in the last four months.
The Government announced that social and prepaid works will reverse the increases. In this way, the value of the quotas will be rolled back to December 2023 and from there they will be updated based on the inflationaccording to the index INDEC CPI. But how much will the fees increase after the refund?
According to calculations by IARAF economist Nadin Argañaraz, a prepaid plan had risen in real terms by 59% in the last four months. “With the changes, it would rise a real 16%. Nominally, instead of being worth $227,000 this month, this plan should be worth $166,000, that is, 27% less.”
Without changes, a specific plan went from consuming andl 18% of the average formal salary in December 2023 to 30% in April 2024. With the changes in values, it would affect 22% of the average formal salary in April, he explained.
Finally, he added that “if inflation is applied a month late, the specific plan analyzed, instead of $227,000, this month should be worth $166,000, 27% less. Between January and April, 25% more would have been paid, equivalent to 90% of a monthly fee”.
Prepaid: what is the Government scheme for members to recover the money from the fees collected?
In the last hours the Superintendence of Health Services He filed an appeal for protection before the Court so that the prepaid companies retrodate the increases and proposed, through the precautionary measure, a money refund scheme for affiliates.
In the appeal for protection 70% refund is proposed in seven equal and consecutive installmentsbut always having the CPI issued each month by the National Institute of Statistics and Census.
The presentation of the Superintendence of Health Services points out that there was “an increase of around 150% by the prepaid medicine entities when according to the recorded indices, it appears that the increase amounts to approximately 70%.”
This means that if a month generates a 10% inflation, the prepaid ones would not charge any increase, since that value would be compensated by the reimbursement figure that they have to make to the affiliates. In the event that inflation is 8%, 2% must be returned to customers.
Source: Ambito
