465. Newspaper interview i Orlando Monteiro da Silva (Part 2: Analysis of the interview /2)

For the president of the Dental Association, the State has to provide health care but ensure they are provided, regulated and funded. From this perspective, it seems that the OMD argues that health care should be provided for contracting of services by third parties and financially supported by our taxes, it is an option, as many others. Course will have both positive and negative aspects. However, we must remember that in thirty years, the state built a vast and comprehensive network of public health services, both in quantity and in quality, so it would be more logical to promote a competition full of care between health offer the public sector and private sector provision, leaving the option to patients / clients, but this is what would be the best logic: we would all gain and the existing equipment would be properly monetized. We can not stop now profitable public investment made ​​by the state over the past thirty years and delivers it to companies or groups that target the private economic profit at the expense of exploitation of patients / customers.

For the dentist-check program, it is a desperate makeup mounted by the Ministry of Health in order to partially fill one of the biggest weaknesses created by the wrong policies followed in the area of ​​oral health by various governments over the past thirty years, using the check-dentist to retain patients / clients at the expense of misery and poverty of those who have to resort to their use seems at least a ridiculous statement. Loyalty should be directed, rather, the quality of services provided.

It is a question: how was it possible to accept the OMD program when asked 80 euros for each dental check and its value was set at 40 euros? After all, did the treatments performed by each dentist-check would be identical if the cost was twice the current? Are pressing issues that the interview does not give insightful response.

Pernicious remains the relationship between a large proportion of dentists and insurance companies, without the OMD requires an ethical order to safeguard the oral health of patients / clients; pure aberration, as might be expected, the reimbursement of ADSE in treatment costs of oral health.

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