The management of AMONG announced new changes to free drug coverage for its more than five million members. It is worth remembering that the vast majority of those affiliated with social work are retirees who earn the minimum salary, today equivalent to a third of the basic basket of the sector measured by the Ombudsman for the Elderly.
From now on AMONG will only grant remedies with 100% coverage of its value to those who prove to have income less than 1.5 minimum assetsthat is to say less than $390 thousand. In the event that the member lives with a person with Single Certificate of Disability (CUD)that income must not exceed three minimum assets (that is, barely the equivalent of a retiree’s basic basket). But, in addition, whoever can “prove” that income must process a special registration in the organization’s database.
The management’s excuse AMONG is to put an end to “the irregularities” detected in the system, which would range from “abuses in the request of medications” to fraud related to false prescriptions. This Monday the director of the organization, Esteban Leguizamohe said for Radio Mitre that the new management detected that “600,000 members “They withdrew free medications while they were enrolled in prepaid plans.” With that information, he justified the implementation of a new measure that affects 5.3 million of affiliates and affiliates.
Leguizamo tried to “bring peace of mind to the members” by stating that the social work is not removing “any medicine from the formulary”, but rather that “all the medicines are available and those members who cannot pay for the treatment can process it at any agency in the country.” the social subsidy.” But his words can no longer reassure anyone.
This special procedure has several conditions. In addition to the income level, whoever requires the 100% benefit You should not be affiliated with a prepaidnor have more than one propertyneither a vehicle less than ten years old of antiquity, among others. In the case of having a higher income and/or a prepaid plan, you will be able to access 100% coverage for medicines only if the cost of what you are prescribed is “equal to or greater than 15% of your income.” In that case, you must process it by “exceptional route.”
The government decided to eliminate free medicines from PAMI. They set more requirements and if they charge above $390 thousand per month they leave them out. They add more bureaucratic procedures when many retirees could lose their lives asking for the subsidy. Milei’s cruelty does not… pic.twitter.com/kT50yjxqg3
— Nicolas del Caño (@NicolasdelCano) December 2, 2024
In an official statement released this Monday, the management of AMONG says that “over decades” the institution faced economic problems due, among other things, to the “impact of pension moratoriums” that left social work “on the brink of bankruptcy”. Thus, he blames the crisis on the hundreds of thousands of workers who in recent years entered the moratorium after having worked their entire lives to employers who employed them “in the black” without making the corresponding contributions.
With that explanation, the management of Freedom Advances justifies the “readjustments in drug coverage” that were made this year. All with the supposed objective of “ensuring the sustainability of services over time.”
In August free medicines had already been restricted and even several drugs were removed from the vademecum. These are remedies for chronic use such as vitamins or gastric protectors. So, more and more restrictions are added to those who have suffered for years, with all governments, millions of older adult workers.
With this new measure, it is most likely that the already well-known daily scene of retired men and women who, after checking their pockets, They leave a pharmacy without the remedies they need to have moderately stable health. Or they go out with them, but then they have to stop buying food or clothing. That is the “freedom” of choosing that the reactionary and anti-worker government of Javier Miley.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
