2024-01-23 12:06:06

All promises made by the ÖVP and FPÖ have been broken: instead of savings and billions for patients, there are additional costs, and instead of service harmonization, there is more two-tier medicine

Vienna (OTS/SK) – The damning report by the Court of Auditors on the black-blue dismantling of health insurance companies exposes every single promise made by the ÖVP and FPÖ. Instead of saving a billion, enormous additional costs are incurred every year. Instead of harmonization of services, there is a progression of two-tier medicine. Instead of an additional billion for patients, today we have a healthcare system in which everything is crashing. SPÖ club chairman Philip Kucher and SPÖ Court of Audit spokeswoman Karin Greiner summarize: “The Court of Auditors confirms in black and white that black and blue is not a good idea for your health! Every promise that Kurz, Strache and the entire black and blue team made was broken. The billion patients was a blatant lie!” ****

Kucher urgently warns of impending consequences for millions of insured people: “The botched collapse of the cash register must not lead to patients now being asked to pay for the political failure of the ÖVP and FPÖ. Instead of equally good services for everyone, there is a threat of cuts and reductions in health services.” The Court of Auditors report also mercilessly shows that the services in the various health insurance funds have not been standardized to the highest level, as promised. “Politicians continue to receive better services than others – it cannot stay that way,” said Kucher.

Greiner states: “The only thing left from this fiasco are horrendous costs for logos, consulting contracts and on the one hand and increasing private costs in health on the other. From the patient’s point of view, definitely nothing positive.” (Conclusion) lk/lp

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2024-01-23 11:15:05

The national political scene and inflation in Morocco are the main subjects covered by the Moroccan daily newspapers published this Tuesday.

+L’Opinion+ writes that for Morocco to be prosperous, dynamic and guarantee fair social conditions, the government’s approach must constantly be fed with fresh ideas coming from different horizons, in particular from think tanks, which play this role of reservoirs of ideas, bridges between the academic and political world, and also a pool of talent destined to occupy key positions in the administration.

In the United States or Germany, these think tanks are often created or revolve around political parties, in order to regularly provide them with ideas and data, and to enable them to win the battle of ideas before that of the ballot box.

But, in Morocco, very few political parties play this role and when they do, they are one-off and often pre-electoralist initiatives, or improvised and without academic or social anchoring, regrets the daily newspaper.

From 2024 to 2030, a colossal amount of 1,300 billion dirhams (1 euro = 10.8 DH) will be injected into different projects and the challenge is that this money benefits above all the national economic fabric, hence the need for rigorous planning, he believes.

In the same vein, +L’Economiste+ believes that political parties are required to make the right choice of the elites who represent them at the level of Parliament, elites who give primacy to the superior interest of the nation and the citizens, instead of being limited to political and personal calculations demonstrated by parliamentarians.

When granting accreditations to run for elections under the colors of this or that party, parties often choose profiles with the means to win their constituencies, but in this quest for performance at the seat level, they neglect the “essential: worrying regarding the origin of their fortunes,” deplores the newspaper.

Often, parliamentarians use the Hemicycle because of their proximity to ministers, particularly to regulate their personal interests, he underlines.

Today, it is time to focus on the training of young people and women, and also to recruit competent and honest executives, in order to meet the development challenges that await us, he maintains.

Addressing inflation in Morocco, +Les Inspirationséco+ writes that the Central Bank has predicted an attenuation of inflation during this year, which gives hope for a more serene horizon for purchasing power.

This perspective seems desirable, particularly following an increase of more than 6% in 2023 compared to the previous year, mainly boosted by food products, recalls the publication.

However, there is still hope that prices will return to thresholds that are more acceptable to consumers.

Now that the central bank’s inflation forecast for 2023 has come to fruition, it is very likely that the mitigation predicted for 2024, to 2.4%, will also prove accurate, he notes.

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