Associations that represent the health market, such as Abramed (Brazilian Association of Diagnostic Medicine), Anahp (representative of private hospitals) and others, sent companies in the sector this Thursday (1st) a statement stating that they will wait for the development of the issue about the nursing floor in the STF.
“The sector awaits the judgment of the Direct Action of Unconstitutionality by the Federal Supreme Court regarding the law that established the floor of nursing”, says the text.
In the assessment of the ten entities that sign the text, the new floor generates imbalance and may collapse the SUS as early as this month.
The law sanctioned by Bolsonaro in early August does not indicate a cost of the new floor, set at R$4,750, and the increase in hospital bills exceeds R$17 billion per year, according to industry projections.
“For hospitals, there would be an average increase of 60% on the payroll, compromising the functioning of institutions that already operate with a deficit”, says the document.
Abramed (Brazilian Association of Diagnostic Medicine), Anahp (representative of private hospitals), CNSaúde, Abramge (health plans), ABCVAC (representative of vaccine clinics), ABCDT (representative of dialysis centers), CMB ( Confederation of Santa Casa), Fenasaúde (Federation of Supplementary Health), FBH (Federation of Hospitals) and CNM (Confederation of Municipalities). All are signatories of the ADI that questions the new floor.
The ADI is being processed by the STF and should be voted on in the coming days. Over the past month, Minister Luís Roberto Barroso, responsible for the case in court, asked for an opinion from Congress, Palácio do Planalto, the Attorney General’s Office and the PGR (Attorney General’s Office). With the exception of the last one, who is yet to speak, all said that the law is constitutional.
The joint position of the entities was released this Thursday (1st), after the UnitedHealth Group, owner of Amil, sent a statement to its employees warning that it will not yet pay the value of the new floor until the case is resolved in court.
Joana Cunha with Paulo Ricardo Martins and Diego Felix
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