Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-01-18-Speech-2-444-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-01-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110118.19.2-444-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-01-18-Speech-2-445-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:João Ferreira2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2013-02-03)3 unknown; Partido Comunista Português (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; EUL/NGL (2009-07-14--2012-02-06)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the intention behind this directive has been clear from the start: to include health services in the objective of liberalising services and so satisfy the interests of economic and financial groups by expanding their areas of business in the healthcare field in all the countries of the European Union, and by treating healthcare as if it were just another commodity and its users as if they were mere consumers. This proposal will exacerbate the inequalities between Europeans, harming those who do not have the means to resort to private health services or to healthcare in another EU Member State. Even with the amendments that have been included in it, its adoption and the very high costs that it could involve would have grave consequences for some countries, not least Portugal and its National Health Service. In practice, the same European Union that is imposing severe restraints on national budgets when it is a case of financing public services, such as health, is not concerned about overloading these budgets when it is a case of channelling public money into any private economic and financial group involved in the healthcare business, or into encouraging medical tourism. In fact, in its eagerness to promote business, this proposal has not provided the proper safeguards for user safety or healthcare quality, particularly as regards non-hospital healthcare. In contrast to what some people have said, the prior approval system does not make adequate provision for these cases. It is therefore necessary for these intentions to be blocked as well, in a similar way to what happened in 2007 with the exclusion of healthcare services from the infamous Bolkestein Directive."@en1
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