By Andrea Hargraves 
the State budget for 2025 It offers to boost the health budget, but will this amount be enough to solve the problems of the National Health Service (SNS)?
second francisco Guyana da Silva, This is the biggest budget boost “Which will have a memory in the field of health.” In Portugal. In the past decade, he explains, there has been 87% increase in spending node National Health Service (SNS), i.e The funds allocated in the state budget are never enough To offset costs and Expenses end up higher than revenues.
“We have, on average, a deficit of about $500 million, and if the NHS were a business, it would be in technical bankruptcy – it would be spending more than it received. This is probably not a problem of lack of resources.” “-budget, but it is a problem of inefficiency for a long time,” says the doctor and commentator SIC.
Where are we with inefficiency? Duplicate services, additional maternity wards and emergency services. Emergency services compete for the same doctors and even engage in market competition that drives up prices within National Health Service (SNS). There's a lot of oversight work the government needs to do, unless we want to go back to a $500 million deficit. [de euros] “How historic,” he adds.
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