Who's poorest pay more for general health services of the State. This trend is demonstrated in a report carried out for four months by a working group appointed by the Government to study solutions to the sustainability of the National Health Service (NHS), reveals the Diário de Notícias this Wednesday. "They are the poorest households bear the greatest burden for the financing of drugs (bulk of household expenditure)." Expenditure on therapeutic appliances and equipment, and medical expenses, nursing, paramedical and other increased significantly its level of regressivity between 1980 and 2000, states the document quoted by the newspaper.
The rates have little or no advance moderators, representing 0.77% of total expenditure on health. In addition, specialties such as Dentistry, Gynecology, Ophthalmology and Cardiology have been disappearing of the SNS for the benefit of private parties.
The authors of the document also warned that the regressive (the poor pay more) is present also in the collection of income tax deductions, also calling attention to the fact that the system be generous at this level.
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