Prepaid companies will increase plan fees by up to 3.7% in February

Prepaid companies will increase plan fees by up to 3.7% in February

The prepaid This Monday they announced to users the new increases that will come in the month of February and, once again, they will be located above the inflation. The companies decided that in the second month of the year they will increase between 2.9% and 3.7% according to the plan.

According to the journalist specialized in economics Rosalía Costantino in Of one, The announced increases are as follows: Omint 3.7%; Medicus 3.45%; Italian Hospital, 2.9%; Galen, 2.9%; Pasteur 2.7% and Swiss Medical 2.5%.

In January, prepaid payments had increased by nearly 4%, above the 2.7% inflation that Indec reported in December and expected for the first month of the year. In this way, in the first months of 2025 prepaid payments will increase by around 7%.

In 2024, prepaid payments increased between 204 and 210% above the Consumer Price Index which was at 118%. That is to say, In the first year of Javier Milei’s government, prepaid payments increased 90 points more than inflation.

Costantino He also detailed that currently, a plan for a person over 40 years old averages between 180,000 and 200,000 pesos while a plan for a young person is around 113,000.

One of the main medicine companies prepaid, Medicusannounced weeks ago that he decided freeze your fees for one year for new members after facing a significant loss of customers.

The measure, announced in the middle of government complaints about alleged cartelization in the sectorcomes in a context of economic crisis and constant increases in health plans.

During 2024, Medicus lost about 25,000 membersan average of 20 people per dayleaving your wallet at approximately 200,000 users. To reverse this situation, the prepaid company launched a promotion that ensures new members a fixed fee for 12 months if they register between January 1 and March 31, 2025.

The ART warn that the system is “broken”

The occupational risk insurers They came out to denounce that the system is “broken” due to the surge in labor lawsuits.

For this reason, they intend to increase rates by 40% starting this month, which would mean a sharp increase in costs for companies.

The companies warned that for the increase in litigation in recent yearsthe system “it’s broken”.

On the other hand, the government rejects that position and warns that the new increase is fruit of a “cartelization”similar to what happened with prepaid payments, which caused a headache for hundreds of thousands of families by raising fees above inflation.

The Union of Occupational Risk Insurers (UART) reported that last year they began 125,842 trials linked to work accidents, which represents an increase of 6.8% compared to 2023.

From the UART warn that “these levels of litigation harm the entire productive structure: employers, affecting their investment and employment decisions, workers, lowering their chances of obtaining employment and quality employment, and ART undermining the solvency of the system”.

He “judicial cost” It is what, according to companies in the sector, negatively affects the companies’ margins and threatens the functioning of the entire system.

Source: Ambito

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