Madrid, Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands are the autonomous communities with a higher degree of privatization of their health servicesaccording to the eighth report ‘Health Privatization in the CCAA’carried out by the Federation of Associations for the Defense of Public Health (FADSP).
"One of our main concerns is the great variability that exists between the health services of the autonomous communities. Privatization is worrying, although it does not occur in the same way in all the autonomous communities"commented the FADSP spokesman, Marciano Sánchez-Bayle, during the presentation of the work.
In this sense, the report points out that communities with an intermediate degree of privatization are Galicia, Andalusia, Valencian Community, Aragon, Castilla y León, Murcia, Basque Country, Asturias, Navarra and La Rioja; while those with a low degree of privatization are Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha and Cantabria.
If these data are compared with those obtained in previous reports, it can be seen that in the group with the lowest level of privatization, only Extremadura remains. Similarly, the largest privatization observed in the last two reports are Aragón, which increases seven places; Murcia, which increases six; Castilla y Léon (4 places), Valencia and Andalusia (3 places each); and Galicia, which increases one position.
Regarding the lower privatization of its health systems, this year’s FADSP report shows a decrease in six posts of Navarrafive from the Basque Country, three from Castilla-La Mancha, two from La Rioja, and one from Asturias and Cantabria.
"Privatization has increased in all the autonomous communities and, furthermore, the result and the movements in the classification only reflect the greater or lesser intensity that each autonomous community has reached. As is usual in studies on the health systems of the autonomous communities, a great inequality between them is observed, with the ratio between the maximum and minimum score standing at 2.81, the highest found in all the reports."Sánchez-Bayle has emphasized.
Finally, the FADSP spokesperson has warned that the data only includes the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic and, therefore, does not include data related to the use of Covid-19 funds, "as well as the fact that during the same situation it has worsened notably in some of the autonomous communities, such as Madrid".
