In the middle of the debate on the financing of the model, a survey of more than 5,000 mutual members reveals that 56% believe that the most necessary improvement is an increase in the financial endowment
CCOO has denounced cuts in medical staff, few healthcare centers and elimination of clinics and medical specialties, such as oncology and radiotherapy.
The General Mutuality of State Civil Servants (MUFACE) celebrated this Thursday its third general council of 2023. In the middle of the debate on the organization’s financing, the meeting shared the results of a survey of more than 5,000 mutual members whose conclusions were agreed upon. THE NEWSPAPER OF SPAINfrom the Prensa Ibérica group. 56% consider that the most necessary is a increase in financial provision of the benefits. Another interesting fact: regarding the possible new benefits to be included, 85% are concentrated in those who prefer physical therapy aids (53%) and mental health aids (32%).
The event was chaired by the acting general director, Myriam Pallarés. With information from the organization itself, one of the points discussed has been the state of the annual accounts of the Mutual Societyhighlighting the favorable report, issued by the General Intervention of the State Administration. The 2022 annual accounts have finally been approved by the General Directorate on July 25, 2023.
Survey of mutual members
Another issue that has been reported to the Council has been the result of the ‘Geoeconomic analysis of the territorial distribution of MUFACE benefits’. The study also includes the results of a survey on the degree of satisfaction with the benefits, carried out on a statistically significant sample of the total MUFACE mutual collective. “The main conclusion has been its positive balance, with the Temporary Disability benefit being the best valued,” indicates MUFACE.
The sample was answered by more than 5,000 mutual members from all the autonomous communities
Dated August 1, 2023According to MUFACE, the survey was sent to a “statistically significant” sample of all mutual members affiliated with MUFACE. The sample was responded to by more than 5,000 mutual members from all the autonomous communities. A first question: How do they rate the benefit they receive?. “The main conclusion is the general positive balance of the evaluations, since the majority of the benefits are valued positively, with the total average rating of the benefits being 5.44 (out of 10),” the organization states in the survey.
“Scraped pass”
A score that CSIF sources value as a “scratched pass.” Other conclusions from the sample are that the provision The best valued is Temporary Disabilitywith a total average rating of 7.04 and the worst rated benefit is the study scholarships, with a total average rating of 4.62. Also, among the worst valued, funeral aid, death benefits, prostheses and orthoprosthetic material. Furthermore, in 11 of the 14 benefits assessed, the percentage exceeds 70% among people who are unaware of or have never requested this aid, for example in the case of the death subsidy (47% are unaware of it).
The most well-known benefits among mutual members are dental and ocular benefits (only 12% are unaware of them)
The most popular features They are the dental and ocular (only 12% are unaware of them) and, regarding improvement measures, 56% consider that the most necessary is an increase in the financial provision of benefits. On the contrary, only 4% are betting on an increase of digitalization in the processing of benefits. Regarding the possible new benefits to be included, 85% are concentrated in those who prefer physical therapy aids (53%) and aids for mental health (32%).
Increased financing
At this morning’s meeting, according to CSIF sources, this union has demanded from the general council of Muface a solution to the lack of financing of the health concert to avoid cuts in concerted assistance. This demand is also extended to MUGEJU and ISFAS (mutual societies of Justice and the Ministry of Defense).
MUFACE has stated that it continues to look for ways to increase the budget allocation
The union has been demanding for months to favor the increase of the financing of the health concert due to the increase in prices. According to union sources, the MUFACE Management, for its part, has stated that it continues to look for ways to increase the budgetary allocation of the public contract with insurers, in collaboration with the State Attorney’s Office.
Health concert
The Mutual Society hopes that the agreement can be modified as soon as the Government is renewed. The health concert 2022-2024 was signed by ADESLAS, ASISA and DKV. It must be renewed in 2025. Previous came into force at the beginning of 2022. As this newspaper already published, there is concern between those three insurers due to a possible bankruptcy of the model at the expense of its financing.
According to company sources, only between the three of them, they have accumulated losses of more than 170 million euros in the year 2022, the first of the current concert. Furthermore, the companies indicated to this newspaper, it would mean carrying to the public health system “to collapse” having to assume the attention of the almost two million mutual members.
The group of mutualists reaches almost two million people
According to data from the MUFACE report, closed as of December 2022, the organization has a total of 1,053,934 holders, which represents an increase of 15,500 people compared to the previous year. In this way, it continues to bring together a group of one and a half million people between owners and beneficiaries (family members of mutual members). If the rest of the mutualists are taken into account – this time with data from 2021 – ISFAS (Social Institute of the Armed Forces) and MUGEJU (General Judicial Mutuality), The group reaches almost two million people.
Cuts to mutualists
This Wednesday another union, in this case CCOO, also denounced that, after the signing of the last MUFACE health agreement, “the services offered through healthcare companies with which they have subscribed to said concert do not comply with the established quality parameters, nor do they do so with the services for which they are obliged to offer, in accordance with the provisions of the National Portfolio of Services and health concerts”.
A doctor in a hospital.
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The union calls the cuts in medical staff “remarkable”the few healthcare centers, the elimination of clinics and medical specialties, such as oncology and radiotherapy; the charging of some medical tests to mutual members, delay in payment of temporary disability benefit when civil servants go on sick leave, the absence of primary care in small towns and the reduction in social aid in recent years, among others, Therefore, its review and update is urgent.“.
Healthcare
From CCOO they believe that the budget with which MUFACE is provided is “insufficient to guarantee something so important as is people’s healthwhich is why we have demanded that the Government properly analyze and evaluate healthcare expenses so that we can recover all the benefits eliminated or cut since 2012“.
Especially, they refer to social and health aid“and to end the discrimination suffered by people retired mutualists in the payment of medicines against the beneficiaries of the General Social Security Regime, with an endowment that increases the item allocated for this purpose in the general budgets for 2024, and updated to the current situation in our country considering the increase in inflation“.