Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-12-04-Speech-4-037"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-12-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Alignment of social security rights and the simplification of procedures2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031204.2.4-037"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-12-04-Speech-4-0382
lpv:speaker	lp:Ioannis Patakis2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (2001-01-30--2004-07-19)3 member; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (2001-01-30--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the proposed arrangements for the insurance card may abolish a few bureaucratic procedures, but in practice any positive points are cancelled out by the policy of reducing social spending and benefits, in accordance with the Maastricht criteria, on the pretext of excessive public-sector deficits, and by the policy of commercialising the health systems. These adjustments will help to speed up the implementation of the policy of the European Union, of the capitalist reforms in the Members States, on the pretext of harmonising health systems, by which we mean levelling social benefits downwards, abolishing the public nature and privatising and commercialising the health and social security systems, reducing pensions and increasing workers’ contributions to insurance funds. All this signals an attack on the workers. What good will the card be when access to the national health system is becoming more and more problematic and the privilege of the right to care remains with those who can afford to pay, given that even national health hospitals are operating on business criteria? Insurance funds are in the red because the state is drawing resources from the social security funds in order to finance the money markets and help out employers by reducing employer contributions. The proposed measures will probably make the financial situation of the insurance funds worse. When social security is privatised, what sort of insurance will there be for the 20% of the population of the European Union living below the poverty line and the 8.8% unemployed, according to the recent Eurostat study? So the workers have nothing to expect from the much-publicised insurance card. On the contrary, they can expect greater insecurity, poverty and increased payments in order to have preventive health protection and care. We are certain that they will fight to overturn these policies. We, the Communist Party of Greece, stand by their side."@en1

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