The International Monetary Fund recommends Spain to establish the sanitary copayment. This suggestion of the IMF will not be implanted for the moment. Alfonso Alonso, the Spanish Minister of Health, said “we have excluded to establish the care copayment. We don’t have it and we don’t have the intention to implant it”.

The suggestion the IMF did the last week proposed tributaries mechanisms for helping to finance the different regions and even propounded the possibility for them to participate in the sanitary copayment and the education to reduce the costs.

The Minister of Economy, Luis de Guindos, declared that the Spanish government has its own economic and political agenda. This agenda is established inside the frame of decisions that were taken the last legislature by the Partido Popular.

This decisions for reducing the public spending created a sanitary reform for minimizing the miles of millions of euros that were going to be spend from the year 2012. This supposed a greying of the medicines for the users of the public system and severe social protests.

Without doubt, the decision of the Ministry of Health of not following the propose of the IMF supposes a necessary point of inflection above the austerity followed by Spain at the start of the crisis in 2008.

 Laura Morato/ @LauraMoratoHerv

Teresa Novillo/ @TeresaNovillo