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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2009-03-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Green Paper on the European Workforce for Health (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20090311.39.3-443"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-03-11-Speech-3-4442
lpv:speaker	lp:Konstantinos Droutsas2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EUL/NGL (2008-06-03--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2008-06-04--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (2008-06-03--2009-07-13)3 member; AGRI (2008-06-04--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2008-06-04--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2008-06-04--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ECON (2008-06-04--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the Green Paper on the European Workforce for Health reveals the plans of capital and of the European Union for privatising health and welfare, with painful consequences for working and grassroots families in the health sector. These changes form part of the more general anti-grassroots reversals in social insurance and social services being promoted in all the countries of the European Union with the active support and complicity of the centre left and centre right forces, which treat health as a commodity, a source of profitability for capital, and patients and their families as customers. The core objective is to extend the business activity of capital and construct a system in which public-sector health services operate on private-sector criteria, in competition with the private sector. The first victims of this commercialised health system are the very people who work in this sector. 10% of the workforce of the European Union, these workers, often work under unacceptable conditions which are dangerous to patients. The constant violation of working times is probably the rule rather than the exception. Their pay, in the public sector at least, is being cut, as is their efficacy, due to the choices of private insurance companies. The central theme of the Green Paper is the mobility of workers and the application of the rules of the Bolkestein Directive in the health sector. Health is a social value, not a commercial commodity. Health workers provide a social service and are not a means of generating profit. Only by fighting will the workers be able to secure a high standard of free services provided solely by the government, well away from any private business activity."@en1
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