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"Mr President, the Communist Party of Greece will be voting against the report misleadingly entitled 'Modernising social protection and developing good quality healthcare', because it contains reactionary assessments and objectives for further promoting the commercialisation of healthcare, swelling the private business groups which control the healthcare sectors and drug production and increasing their profits. This has painful consequences for public health and leeches the income of the grass-roots. The patient is a customer. Basically, there is no health policy. Health and safety at work regulations are primitive. On an annual basis, 40% of healthcare services provided are covered by workers' wages. Health is increasingly being integrated into the more general anti-grass roots policy of the European Union. Responsibility for the protection of health is being individualised and the healthcare services market is being fully liberalised, following the sweeping changes in industrial relations and in social insurance, such as the organisation of working times, the increase in the retirement age, the reduction in pensions and so on. Healthcare should not be a commodity. It should be a free, quality service provided on an equal footing to everyone by the state alone. The pharmaceutical and biomedical technology sectors, production and marketing should belong to the state and should be controlled by society."@en1
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