GESY looks poorly funded

[JimX]

According to local doctors and surgeons, GESY is looking poorly funded and maybe a none runner.

https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/11/18/priv ... ly-funded/

[jeba]

They seem to have a point. 2.9 % of wages for health cover is unrealistic. E. g. in Germany around 15-17 % (depending on your provider) of your wages will go to health insurance (which is mandatory). And that doesn´t include nursing care insurance (which is also mandatory).

[JimX]

Cyprus Mail.

Doctors and the health insurance organisation agreed on Monday to launch an intensive dialogue this week in a bid to resolve differences in the run-up to the adoption of the national health scheme (Gesy).

The two sides met with Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou and agreed to hold meetings to discuss issues relating to personal doctors, specialists, and their fees, how the fees will be set, and private medicine.

The two sides want to wrap up talks by Friday so as to review the results in a new meeting with the minister next Monday.

Ioannou thanked both sides for their response and stressed that good will would help achieve the necessary convergences to overcome any deadlocks.

“Our effort is to find the solution and framework to allay the doctors’ concerns to a great extent,” the minister said.

Chairman of the medical association, Petros Agathangelou, said the objective was to secure the best possible result for the public, “a system that meets its basic aspects, universality, accessibility, and social solidarity.”

The head of the health insurance organisation Thomas Antoniou appeared certain there will be a positive outcome.

“Certain meetings have been set for tomorrow and the day after, so we have a lot of work that must be done,” he said. “By Monday I am sure we will have a very positive result.”

The medical association insists the one billion euro budget for the scheme is not enough, which is doomed to fail.

It has repeatedly warned that the budget falls short by as much as €300m, according to some reports.

The EU average for health services is between eight and 10 per cent of GDP. The Cyprus government has allocated only five per cent of GDP for Gesy.

[memory man]

Is this a Cyprus Mail article?

Or

Is it from somewhere else?

[trevnhil]

Jim's wording is indeed in the Cyprus Mail online..

[JimX]

Yes from the Mail..

MM why do you ask?

[Dominic]

You are supposed to provide a link to the source when you quote chunks from a newspaper.

[JimX]

Supposed to post a link?

Where in your rulebook is this Dominic?, just for reference, it is easy to find the GESY link on the Cyprus Mail page (when working), it appears not to be at 7am.

https://cyprus-mail.com/tag/gesy/ the CM page is down at this time.

Surely this is very important to those of us who live here.

[Dominic]

There was a big post about it a while ago. I have however amended the "Have You Got A New Story?" pinned thread to include the following:

Please do not post quotes from news sources without supplying a valid link. It is only fair that they get attribution for their work. It also means that other people can get more information about the quote.

[JimX]

Yes boss.....

As already posted, I have posted the link, but it appeared that the Cyprus Mail website was down at that time. The links are now active.

https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/11/20/gesy ... d-parties/

[Dominic]

No worries. Anyway, it highlighted the fact that I had forgotten to update the terms and the News Story thread.