On his visit to Garcia da Orta, the liberal candidate met behind closed doors with the hospital administration. On his way out, after the meeting, he again insisted on the party’s proposals for health.
For Cotrim, “We’re not talking about privatizing health, but a Separation of the function of financing and providing health care“People don’t care if the person who is going to solve the problem is public, private or social. What matters to them is that they have Universal, easy and tends to be free to access: everything that is constitutionally stipulated.”
The president and candidate of the IL wants all this “preferably better quality and at an affordable cost”, but the goal in health is not to reduce public spending – which reached 10.24% of GDP last year – but above all to increase, improve and increase the efficiency of state-guaranteed health care to its citizens. If that means more investment, Kotrim isn’t against.
Liberals are not opposed to this ability to place a greater burden on GDP spending, provided we do away with it It’s such a shame that people die in the queue. It’s a real shame. There will be good and bad public hospitals and good and bad private hospitals. But giving people the possibility to choose what they think is best for them, with complete freedom, [o Estado financiará essas escolhas e] This will force the entire system to evolve and improve, Kotrim explained.
The candidate believes that it is possible to obtain “improvements in health services at a much lower unit cost per medical procedure”, but the goal is to “reduce waiting lists and improve the quality of health care” provided in Portugal.
The candidate added that he did not understand “how some political forces, out of ideological obsession, do not view this as the real way to start moving towards a national health system, which gives a much better response to the needs of the people.” Especially since whoever resists change “is Contribute to the collapse of SNSIn the opinion of the liberals.
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Before traveling to Garcia de Orta Hospital, in Almada, João Cotrim Figueiredo took advantage of a Wednesday afternoon to talk about transport and take a ferry ride between Cais do Sodré and Almada. After the trip, the candidate spoke to reporters and began by saying: “Some public transportation works well and has few complaints, others work poorly and they have many complaints.”
What intrigued the political leader, riding the ferry from Transtego/Suvlsa, is to make Apologies for the competition in transportation and benefits of special privileges. “Everyone should have the possibility to compete as long as they do not depend on one infrastructure,” the candidate said, adding that “the river is under the concession of one company and everyone knows how often crossings are canceled – and the way people complain about the service they provide here at Transtejo/ Soflusa”.
This could have been completely avoided if the Tagus crossing had been open to competition. There has been a plan for a long time to install a series of piers on each of the banks, to allow, for example, the presence of river taxis, other operators operating on the same roads and on the same pier operated by Transtego/Suffelsa and the presence of competition.”
Kotrim Figueiredo says apologizing for the competition is “not an ideological obsession”. “It’s my business and practical obsession. When there is more than one service provider, everyone is obligated to improve and do their best to attract customers.He pointed out that the matter is clear in the case of crossing the river. The railway crossing has been under concession for a long time and there are far fewer reports of service problems and complaints from users. Any franchisee knows they have to reach high levels of service in order to be able to see their franchise renewed one day.”
