Milena Apostolakis and Dimitris Spyrakos speak of “another blow” that the insured in the private health insurance field speaks. As they say, ‘After exterminating increases in health premiums In recent years, when the government has allowed by the imposition of the private index of insurance companies, the latter are now changing to change the way the insured persons are compensated, difficult to make their access to private hospitalsยป.
Specifically, the Economic Officer of the PASOK-Making Change And the secretary of the private debt and consumer sector, in their joint statement, notes that insurance companies “require insured persons to pay themselves for hospitalize themselves and then claim them from the insurance company”. “The result, insured persons who do not have sufficient savings, are unable to use their contracts,” adds.
They also point out that ‘Big private hospitals and insurance companies are indifferent For consumer rights, “in particular,” private hospitals, operating under a full opacity regime, take advantage of the difficult position and inability of patients to impose charges beyond all rationales. And insurance companies, instead of organizing, as they have a debt, the provision of their services in a manner that protects the interests of the insured, They choose the easy way to pass the costs and “co -operation” of consumers. “
Mrs Apostolakis and Mr Spyrakos point out that “PASOK, which with its initiatives led to the abolition of the unacceptable IOBE index in adjustment of premiums, will lead directly in initiatives to end and to end the end of nonsense. of the distortions of competition in the field of private health. In the face of a government that, with its inactivity, fosters the inconvenience of consumer to speculation and in this area, it will defend the interests of the insured and the patients. “
As they point out, “changing the way the insured persons compensate is a unilateral and abusive practice that undermines their rights and as such should be immediately withdrawn.”