The management of health insurance under the private company Seguros Constitución was marked by “the endless difficulties of contact and response” and with clinics that did not provide services despite being in affiliated health centers, according to the Association of Professors of the UCV
The Association of Professors of the Central University of Venezuela (Apucv) issued a statement this October 13 in which it denounces “the erratic policy of the national government” regarding the social security of university workers.
In the document, the association explains that “the debacle of the national health system and the lack of functional HCM insurance” adds to other difficulties they face such as low salaries and precarious working conditions.
He also assures that the government stopped making contributions to social security institutes and self-administered insurance by higher education institutions and that, instead, “they have concentrated resources in centralized and bureaucratic structures that offer a lot, but when responding to a health problem they do not comply. Likewise, the statement highlights that this goes against the constitutional obligations and acquired by collective agreements.
Not content with destroying the salary, they also destroyed the social security of university professors.
They left the union systems without legal contributions and centralized everything in an inoperative and dark ministerial structure.
The APUCV explains it here very clearly. pic.twitter.com/3CjobevQTr
—Leonardo Vera (@LeonardoVera60) October 13, 2024
The association rejects that currently the health insurance services were transferred to the private company Seguros Miranda and highlights that this selection was made “without the participation of the workers” and without the correction of “the existing underlying problems.”
Initially, the Comprehensive Health System of the Ministry of Higher Education was created, but given its “ineffectiveness”, it was decided to hire the private insurer Seguros Constitución. However, UCV professors maintain that this management was marked by “the endless difficulties of contact and response” and with clinics that did not provide services despite being in the affiliated health centers.
The association rejects that with the new insurer “the same procedures will be used” without concerted health centers and that each individual must register in the system, which in the opinion of the Apucv, demonstrates “the inability to manage the labor payrolls held by of the State. They also maintain that the HCM that covers them “must be collective.”
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The UCV Professors Association points out that the solution would be to develop a “robust” health and social security system. To do this, they propose “adequate contributions derived from salaries established in accordance with the provisions of our Constitution.” Likewise, they urge to “strengthen union pension systems” by complying with collective agreements and their contributions.
The statement ends with a call to restore the contributions provided for in the Agreement Minutes to the union pension systems.
The economist and professor at the UCV Leonardo Vera He highlights that the union systems were left without contributions and that everything was centralized in an “inoperative and dark ministerial structure.”
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