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Consumer protection authority considers adjustment of 6.76% for individual plans and abuse questions the calculation formula
Rio - The increase of 6.76% for health plans and individual family members, authorized by the NSA (National Agency of Supplemental Health), is considered abusive by authorities of consumer protection. Daniela Trettel, Idec's lawyer, stressed that the increase exceeds the IPCA (Consumer Price Index Expanded), which closed 2008 at 5.9%. "The most serious is that this increase has been accumulating in recent years. This makes the ability to pay of consumers did not reach the adjustments, "complains about Daniela.

According to her, the method of calculating the NSA is not clear: "There is no assurance that those costs are. Customers are rendered. There are other values that should be considered as costs that vary from region to region. " For Daniela, there are other methods, more fair, adopted by regulatory agencies in other sectors. "Lack of ANS have a more transparent discussion with consumers, not only with respect to individual contracts, but also the collective, which should not be deregulated as they are."

The adjustment applies to plans contracted from January 1999. According to NSA, the index was defined based on the variation in the supply and use of procedures in 2008 included in the list of coverage. The increase went into effect on Friday and will be implemented over 12 months, according to the anniversary date of the contract.

Interested in the lack of portability, the medical Jewel Maria Cristina, 46 years, admits the exchange operator. She spent U.S. $ 590 per month with plans for her, her husband and son: "It's a lot of money. Now, operators will have to rethink this increase. Who recovered very lose customers. " 

  
  Source: The Day

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