@EUCommission Could you perhaps remind yourselves (through the policies you promote in the Member States) that privatising public healthcare turns the right to healthcare into a perverse by-product designed to enrich a select few, which has nothing to do with the ‘free market’ and even less to do with health?

Thank you!!!

@Veza85UE @EUCommission Put simply, you can either invest tax revenue in public spending or divert those funds to pay private companies to run both private and public hospitals, thereby reducing resources for the public health service (fewer staff, fewer beds). It comes down to political will and decision-making. And it is a matter of legislation and economic policy.

The decline in public services in general, and in healthcare in particular, has been exacerbated by such diversions of funds across Europe since the pandemic. And this is driven by EU-backed policies.

As for how these publicly funded companies operate through care ratios or the reuse of medical equipment, it’s best not to even mention it. Their aim is profit and the highest possible profit margin. Let us remember that a public service seeks to meet a community need or to ensure a right is upheld. Not to make a profit.

When you break your arm or have an accident and lose consciousness, you’re not thinking about who will provide you with the best service on the market. You want to be treated. Healthcare is the very opposite of what market competition is supposed to improve.

So the intention is not to improve the service, but to siphon off public resources to enrich certain players. It is a political and ideological decision driven by Brussels. This isn’t a recent development; it has been going on since 2008. The pandemic has exacerbated the situation in the area of public health.

@Veza85UE @EUCommission Brussels is in charge of the EU’s economic and monetary policy. And that is HUGE.

I can see you’re focusing on the wrong policies. You don’t need to suggest, or even ‘hint’, at what defence or health policies (over which it has no jurisdiction) should be pursued when you’re setting the guidelines on how resources should be used, or the economic and budgetary guidelines, or how those policies should be managed within a general framework and how they are funded.

@Veza85UE @EUCommission Are you joking? Just because the European Central Bank is based in Frankfurt doesn’t make it a separate, alien entity. Are you telling me that the division of powers between the various European institutions is completely compartmentalised?

That the decisions taken in Brussels, Strasbourg or wherever the Council of Europe meets are made without any connection or planning whatsoever?

You must be joking. Right?

@Veza85UE @Ulmo @EUCommission we will have to repeat this message over and over again: our own national governments are the executive power of the EU. Do not let them hide behind a fake story about 'what the EU is doing to them'.. they are cowardly stepping away from their own decisions (especially when there is some not so popular element in it, otherwise of course everything is their accomplishment).

Thanks @Veza85UE for your patience in calling them out!!