translated from Spanish: Isapres rising: Conadecus appealed to resort to justice

the President of the National Corporation of consumers and users (Conadecus), Hernán Calderón, called on people to continue to rely on the Court of appeals by plans 5 isapres hikes. This after it was revealed that the entities that apply hikes at the next 2019-2020 are cross Blanca(7,7%); Hive (6.3%); Consalud (5.9%); Banmédica (4.9%); and Fusat (5.9%). Calderon told Metro that “the remedy is the only viable mechanism that people have to prevent unjustified rise.” We won’t fail to tell people to use it”. Moreover, it requested that the national economic Prosecutor (FNE) and Sernac investigated the increase in the cost of the plans announced by the above-mentioned isapres. “We want that the FNE take cards in the matter, it is unacceptable that isapres are going up annually, some up to 7.0 percent, more than double of the IPC, but we also need to see and that an investigation into the vertical integration that have these and making that many times” justify these prices, because they are those who control clinics, hospitals and laboratories”, said. It should be recalled that on Tuesday President Sebastián Piñera and the Minister of health, Emilio Santelices, claimed that this month they will send to Congress a Bill to modernize the Isapres system. Santelices said in this regard that with the creation of a technical body which is charged independently of the evaluation of all new systems, and recognize the costs and determine how much really are worth the benefits, “the black boxes are finished and be” “they have just unilateral hikes, because unlike what we had so far which is not responsibility of the Government as to determine how much the insurers can upload”.

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