The Ministry for Health wants pensioners to pay 10% of the cost of their medicament, and the subject is to be debated today. Minister Ana Mato will suggest to the autonomous regions that pensioners pay 10% of the cost of their medicaments, while those in work pay 50% of the cost in place of the current 40%. Pensioners with a high income will be called on to pay 20%. Currently pensioners do not have to pay anything. Limits will be established so as not to prejudice the chronically ill. The cabinet is expected to approve the measure this Friday, and then introduce it by Royal Decree. The measure is just one to help meet the 7 billion € cut in health funding this year. The services covered by the Health Service are being revised and are likely to be cut. Unity on services covered across the country will be introduced, and this would mean that there would be a new health card for all of Spain which would contain the fiscal information of each user. The authorities are also working to control what is being called ‘health tourism’ not only by Europeans who live in Spain, but also those who use the health service when on holiday.
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