A dangerous thus unethical proposal that “unvaccinated citizens should pay for their Covid-treatment in hospitals” was made by the President of the Panhellenic Medical Association Thanassis Exadaktylos. The statement triggered an outrage among the medical community and social media users.
Speaking to Skai TV, he said that “unvaccinated citizens sick in public hospitals with Covid-19 should pay part of their treatment from their own pockets and depending on their financial abilities.”
He added that this proposal was not as “absurd” as it sounds.
The President of the PMA and member of the epidemiologists’ committee advising the government claimed further that “unvaccinated citizens who get sick and are hospitalized in the ICUs, get sick by choice since they do not accept to be vaccinated and thus increase the financial and health cost.”.
He even went so far as to claim that “they are violating the democratic right of vaccinated people and adding multiple costs.”
Exadaktylos proposal triggered the outrage among medical doctors at public hospitals who sharply condemned them and reminded him of the Hippocrates oath.
“Mr. Exadaktylos’ positions reflect his personal views and those of those who turn medical science into an apology for barbarism,” wrote, among others, the OEGNE, the Federation of Hospital Doctors’ Associations.
19/11/21
Ομόφωνη καταγγελία #ΟΕΝΓΕ για τις δηλώσεις του προέδρου ΠΙΣ πως οι ανεμβολίαστοι πρέπει να πληρώνουν τα έξοδα νοσηλείας τους.
"Οι θέσεις του κ. Εξαδάκτυλου απηχούν τις προσωπικές του απόψεις και όλων όσων μετατρέπουν την ιατρική επιστήμη σε απολογητική της βαρβαρότητας" pic.twitter.com/mjaL90fV76— P.G. Papanikolaou (@PGPapanikolaou) November 19, 2021
What is interesting is that Exadaktylos proposal comes just four days after former International Monetary Fund employee and defender of austerity and neo-liberal policies and devoted applauder of conservative New Democracy Miranta Xafa envied this practice Singapore has implemented.
Why can’t we do it too? Greek economist Xafa asked on a Twitter post.
Η Σιγκαπούρη σταματάει να καλύπτει το κόστος νοσηλείας COVID για τους μη ςμβολιασμένους. Εμείς γιατί συνεχίζουμε; https://t.co/YCJKaqJ0iW
— Miranda Xafa (@MXafa) November 14, 2021
Exadaktylos’ and Xafa’s proposals are extremely dangerous not to say “vulgar” as they essential propose the exclusion of hundreds of thousands of people from the public health care system who in fact finance it with their taxes and social security contributions thus paying for the salaries of people like him and her and also their studies.
In the same logic, they can come up tomorrow with other extreme and antisocial proposal like the additional cost participation of people suffering from diseases directly or indirectly linking to the way of life.
It is the same logic that “whoever smokes should pay for treatment if he gets lung cancer, a drunk driver should not have treatment in ICU, whoever eats fatty or sugary food should not be treated free of charge for cholesterol or diabetes.
We can only hope that Exadaktylos and Xafa’s unethical proposal is only a “firework” initiated by some government officials with the aim to scare off unvaccinated citizens and force them to get the jab.
Note that there is a public debate currently in several European countries how to deal with the Covid-overload in hospitals and the shortage of ICUs.
So what do you think, given the factors and the dangers mentioned above?
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It turns out that at the moment 70% of the people taken in to hospitals with Covid are vaccinated. It’s an international number so why should it be different in Greece. People who are vaccinated think they are safe. And take their lives as before. But thats an irrational thought. You have to maintain your hygienic measurements!
ok, so, where do i sign to stop having EFKA taken from me every month? and then ill happily pay all my own medical expenses (so far i’ve never gotten a penny out of them anyway, never been to a doctor , just been paying all these years for nothing) ..
This IS apartheid! These people have already paid for their treatment.
So should the smokers and the overweight pay for their treatment and unncessary burden on the medical system as well?! Where does it end?
It would appear, from the results of the poll, that 43% of KTG readers are braindead fascists!
Anyone who got their vaxx with a temporary P-AMKA has (probably) never paid a penny to the Greek health system via I.K.A, T.E.B.E. etc.
If they now get ill ???
Since EFKA is supposed to be insurance perhaps it should start behaving like other insurance schemes. All commercial insurance is based on actuarial risk. The higher your risk the more you pay in premium for the same cover. EFKA could do the same with differences in the percentage taken out of your salary depending on whether you are a smoker, overweight or vaccinated etc. In the case of vaccination it would be based on whether you had received all the approved vaccines normally administered to children and a signed undertaking that you would also accept any future vaccine that was approved by the medical regulator to protect public health.
that’s the scheme of a private insurance company. EFKA is not private
I realise that but I can see no reason why it shouldn’t adopt best practise of private schemes. It’s not working wonderfully well as it is?
I have no particular preference whether various organisations should be privately owned or publicly owned but whichever they are they need to be well managed.
it works as it is for millions people. whoever wants can have additional private insurance. Note, though: covid-treatement only in public hospitals and for a good reason.
That would mean I might have to sell some of my shares in Pfizer, and Modena. And they’ve been doing very nicely, lately. But jokes about corruption aside, it’s interesting how Africa has very low Covid numbers, and extremely low “vaccination” numbers, as well. But I don’t want to get into ‘coincidence theories’. Certificate Of Vaccination ID AI (1,9)