2024-01-17 05:39:12
Claudio Belocopitt, owner of Swiss Medical Group and Medicus, was rebuked by several people in his restaurant in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo, in the midst of prepaid increaseswhich rose up to 40% monthly in January and are expected to rise 25% in February.
The businessman, a shareholder in addition to América TV and other companies, spent that bad moment when I was in the Roldán restaurant, also owned by Daniel Vila and José Luis Manzano, who share different businesses. They control Edenor, for example.
The gastronomic establishment operates in the stately Palermo Equestrian Club, located at Avenida Figueroa Alcorta at 5100. It is a grill with a country feel in one of the most exclusive areas of the City of Buenos Aires.
It opened at the end of 2018 and is frequented by politicians, businessmen and entertainment figures. One of the regulars is Sergio Massa.
The episode involving Belocopitt It occurs following prepaid companies applied in recent months sharp increases in your private medicine rate. Due to these increases, in the last hours the Civic Coalition of Elisa Carrió He denounced cartelization in prepaid companies.
Belocopitt isHe is also president of the Argentine Health Union (UAS), the entity that brings together the main entities of the private system. In that role he became spokesperson for the sector’s claims in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
From that position, he supported during 2023 the requests to enable prepaid increases higher than those granted by the government of Alberto Fernández.
Between the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024, with the entry into force of Javier Milei’s mega DNU, lThe prepaid installments showed increases of up to 40% monthly. “The numbers are supposed to normalize and the companies update their income. We are betting on that. If it doesn’t happen, People are going to fall out of the system. The reality is like this,” Belocopitt said following the first increases.
The protests of the members reached the Court, where this Monday Judge Martina Forns ordered the Italian Benevolent Society in Buenos Aires to readjust the dues of your health plan. It was in a case initiated by a 78-year-old user, who complained once morest the sharp increase. The resolution is only valid for that case.
This Tuesday, meanwhile, the Civic Coalition filed a complaint with the National Commission for the Defense of Competition once morest the prepaid medicine companies that make up the Argentine Health Union. This is why from the environment of Elisa Carrion They define cartelization to raise prices for users and suppliers in a coordinated manner.
“There is no competition there, there is abuse,” expressed the opposition deputies and legislators Hernán Reyes, Maximiliano Ferraro, Ruben Manzi and Facundo Del Gaiso.
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