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Spanish Doctors and Nurses Protest Privatisation

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FRANCE 24 (Sun, 2013-02-17 00:00)

Thousands of Spanish doctors, nurses and other health care workers demonstrated on Sunday in 16 cities against budget cuts and plans to partly privatise medical services.

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<p>Thousands of Spanish doctors, nurses and other health care workers, many wearing white lab coats, demonstrated on Sunday in 16 cities against budget cuts and plans to partly privatise medical services.</p>

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<p>Several thousand people marched to Madrid's central Plaza de Cibeles from 27 hospitals in the region, waving signs that read "Your health is being sold" and "Cutting back on health care is a crime".<br />

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They chanted, blew whistles and beat drums as they made their way through the streets of the Spanish capital, blocking traffic.<br />

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"There is no study that shows that privatising the management of hospitals leads to lower costs. This privatisation hurts patients' health care to benefit other interests," said Emilia Becares, a 46-year-old nurse who went to the protest with her three sons, aged seven, eight and nine.<br />

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The Madrid regional government plans to outsource the management of six of 20 large public hospitals and 27 health centres of the 270 in the region.<br />

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Spanish health care workers and many patients, who are fiercely protective of the public health system, say private providers will put profits before quality and fire thousands of support staff in favour of cheaper replacements.<br />

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"Many medications are no longer provided for free. I am here to defend the public health care system which we have built up over the years," said Carlos Moreno, a 52-year-old doctor who came to the protest decked out in his lab coat.<br />

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Smaller protests were held in other Spanish cities including Albacete, Cuenca and Segovia.<br />

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Nationally, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's government has slashed health spending by seven billion euros ($9.1 billion) a year as part of a campaign to squeeze 150 billion euros out of the crisis-racked country's budget by 2014.</p>

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<p>They chanted, blew whistles and beat drums as they made their way through the streets of the Spanish capital, blocking traffic.</p>

<p>"There is no study that shows that privatising the management of hospitals leads to lower costs. This privatisation hurts patients' health care to benefit other interests," said Emilia Becares, a 46-year-old nurse who went to the protest with her three sons, aged seven, eight and nine.</p>

<p>The Madrid regional government plans to outsource the management of six of 20 large public hospitals and 27 health centres of the 270 in the region.</p>

<p>Spanish health care workers and many patients, who are fiercely protective of the public health system, say private providers will put profits before quality and fire thousands of support staff in favour of cheaper replacements.</p>

<p>"Many medications are no longer provided for free. I am here to defend the public health care system which we have built up over the years," said Carlos Moreno, a 52-year-old doctor who came to the protest decked out in his lab coat.</p>

<p>Smaller protests were held in other Spanish cities including Albacete, Cuenca and Segovia.</p>

<p>Nationally, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's government has slashed health spending by seven billion euros ($9.1 billion) a year as part of a campaign to squeeze 150 billion euros out of the crisis-racked country's budget by 2014.</p>

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Of Biblical Proportions: Inequality and Poverty Wages

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By By Rev. Jim Conn

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Despite the rising indicators of economic recovery, too many working families are discovering there are only poverty jobs, part-time jobs or no jobs at all.

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My friend pastors a vibrant congregation in the Mid-City area of Los Angeles. Her people reflect the neighborhood and the church worships in both Spanish and English. In a conversation this week I asked her how her folks were doing. Her voice dropped, and she shook her head. "There are no jobs," she said, "and the ones who work can only get part-time hours." With dismay, she said, "I don't know how they are making it."<br />

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I don't either. At one extreme, high-end properties - homes that sell for several millions of dollars - had a banner year in 2012. Sales of super-expensive automobiles reached record levels. Exotic vacation destinations are packed. The number of jobs in Los Angeles County has reached about 4.3 million, almost the number we had before the Great Recession began five years ago, although there are now also more people looking for work than then.<br />

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In 1968 a full-time, minimum wage job provided about 86 percent of what it cost to live. Today it takes two people working in a family of four to reach the lowest rung on the slippery ladder of what could remotely be called a middle-income standard of living. These families have a place to live, food, probably an old car that they hope doesn't break down - and they must pray that no one gets hurt on the job or the kids don't get sick. Already they live by borrowing; medical debt would put them under.<br />

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About 146 million Americans live in a condition that one weekly news magazine calls"poor-but-working class." Since the recession began in 2008, 60 percent of all the jobs created in this country only pay minimum wage, which stays stuck where it was five years ago, while inflation actually has increased by seven percent. The people with these kinds of jobs do the low-level service work that the rest of us depend on. They wash our cars, watch our pre-schoolers, care for our elders who are too ill to get out of the house. They sew in sweatshops, clear tables at restaurants, weed gardens. Overwhelmingly they work in fast food and low-end retail.<br />

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Half of all this poor-but-working class is composed of white folks who mostly live in the South and Southwest, but they represent only 10 percent of this caste-of-perpetual-debt. A quarter of Latinos and African American people live in circumstances of working poverty. Right now in America, one out of every four employees earns less than $10 an hour, and almost a third of all workers don't receive paid sick leave. So this is not just a problem for "them" -  some faceless demographic to be viewed at a distance. It affects working people right here.<br />

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Conventional wisdom says that education changes these circumstances. That used to be true, but now the average high school graduate earns $12,000 a year less than the same graduate in 1980. Getting a college education can help, of course. However, only 30 percent of Americans earn a BA degree, and 15 percent of those grads are driving taxis, and 25 percent of retail clerks have their bachelors - not big-paying jobs. These economic realities mean that what we used to call "structural unemployment" or "under-employment" has become the pervasive mode of living for most workers. The American Dream has been reduced to a persistent struggle to make ends meet.<br />

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I have long believed that if people work all day they should earn enough to provide shelter, food and health care for themselves and their families. Even the Bible - from Moses to Jesus - calls for employers to pay a wage people can live on. But that is not, apparently, the common practice these days. Now, despite the rising indicators of economic recovery, too many working families are discovering there are only poverty jobs, part-time jobs or no jobs at all.<br />

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<p>Rev. Jim Conn is the founding minister of the Church in Ocean Park and served on the Santa Monica City Council and as that city's mayor. He helped found Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice, Los Angeles, and was its second chair, and was a founder of Santa Monica's renter's rights campaign.<br />

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