The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has assured that they will pay “all benefits” to patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), has denied that her Administration was going to establish a co-payment and has called the state regulations “sloppy”.
“There was never a problem in this regard until your Government tried to legislate in a sloppy manner, because in seven years, I insist, it did absolutely nothing. And what it did was mix aid with dependency,” she snapped at the PSOE spokesperson in the Assembly, Mar Espinar, who began her speech by celebrating that the Executive had “rectified”.
Criticism of wanting to implement a co-payment
The socialist has assured that the regional Government intended to “implement a 40% co-payment for the most serious ALS patients with full audacity” and has reproached her for arriving “making a scene” when the law for this pathology “had everyone’s consensus”.
In contrast, Ayuso has refused to engage in Espinar’s “bar-stool provocations” and has reproached the central Government for not having listened to the Autonomous Communities, even though Madrid “even wrote to them on two occasions”.
She criticized Espinar for “never” having shown interest in ALS patients since she became spokesperson, while the president boasted about the regional Executive’s measures.
She enumerated that they attend to 800 patients a year, “many from other regions,” and there are five reference units in public hospitals, while also boasting about the Enfermera Isabel Zendal Hospital center, “a second home for 250 people treated there,” the clinical trial at La Princesa Hospital which is “hope for the world,” and that Madrid will be the “first region in the world” to have a residence in Puerta de Hierro. “And meanwhile, your Government owes us 3.1 billion euros in dependency,” concluded the president of the Community of Madrid.
In contrast, Mar Espinar has hinted that she believes someone must have told the president to “disguise it a bit more” and reverse the co-payment, and has stated that it is “a hallmark” to deny “care to the sick”.
The spokesperson for Más Madrid, Manuela Bergerot, also alluded to this issue, celebrating “the rectification” by the Madrid leader regarding aid for ALS patients. “Otherwise, it was an absolute disgrace, Mrs. Ayuso,” she stated.
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