translated from Spanish: Mañalich is in place for the Isapres after presenting government health plan: “Either they adapt or they will disappear”

This Sunday President Sebastián Piñera, announced the details of the project that will reform the National Health Fund (Fonasa) so that all people have access to the same basic health plan, which does not discriminate by age, gender, income level or health condition.
The health minister, Jaime Mañalich, who started the Institutions of Planned Health (Isapres) to adapt to the changes that are coming or “are going to disappear”, was responsible for giving more details.
In an interview with the Canal 13 Central Bureau programme, the Secretary of State noted that “we currently have a system of protection in public health that has become obsolete, which requires reform.”
Mañalich, among other things, further explained the costs of the initiative, where Fonasa’s coverage currently costs $47,000 per person per month, now, with the new universal plan will cost $70,000 per person per month.
While the difference will be covered by fiscal spending, the minister did not give an exact amount. “I don’t want to invade the land of the Ministry of Finance because then they get angry,” he said.
The minister defended the Government’s proposal and was categorical in placing the Isapres. “Either they adapt or they’re going to disappear,” he said, and assured that Fonasa’s universal plan must be replicated by private insurers.
“The only horizon of the Isapres is to deliver a universal health plan,” he said.
Finally, the minister also took the time to defend the President’s management and to criticize the constitutional accusations being made by the opposition.
Piñera “is extraordinarily visionary, because Fonasa has not been at the service of the people, as the Constitution states,” he raised. If the universal plan is included in the new Constitution, “that law is already there.”

Original source in Spanish