Public healthcare is not at its best. The successive cutbacks are taking their toll on the service offered to Spaniards, and every day the lengthening of waiting lists and the saturation in the emergency services of our hospitals are in the news. For these reasons, health insurance continues to grow in number of policyholders. Let’s take a look at the advantages that insurance offers.
As we indicated in an article in May, in which we also talked about the waiting lists for medical insurance, there are already more than 10 million people insured with private health insurance in Spain.
Drastic reduction of waiting lists
Unfortunately, we may have to wait months to visit a specialist in the public health system (and the trend is even pessimistic), plus as many more months if we then need a diagnostic test.
In our opinion:
There’s nothing worse than knowing you have a health problem and having to wait so long to find out what’s going on and why.
A few facts: the average waiting list for
- Gynecology is 85 days
- For 75 of ophthalmology, among others.
Not to mention surgical interventions, which can take up to more than a year, as well as obtaining the results of diagnostic tests.
Direct access to the specialist
Thanks to health insurance, we can avoid going to the family doctor first as an essential step to be able to see a specialist.
A medical insurance provides you with direct access to the specialty you need. This is one of the issues most valued by policyholders, as it means significantly shortening the time of diagnosis and treatment.
Wide range of specialists
We do not have to go to the doctor assigned to us, as is the case with Social Security. Thanks to medical insurance, we can choose from a wide range of doctors.
When deciding between one insurance or another, it is important to take this into account.
Prices have been adjusted over what was paid years ago.
Rates have been adjusted in the face of the high level of competition between insurers. And not only that, even customized options have been introduced, so that customers can meet the cost of insurance according to their economic possibilities: introduction of co-payments, diagnosis-only guarantees and specialists.
These would be the main advantages, although we leave out, for example, the comfort of the facilities or the very good rating given by users of private insurance ( 81% of users rate the services provided by private healthcare as above average and 87% would recommend its use). And, in companies, the reduction in absenteeism.
If you want to enjoy these advantages, simply contact us and we will offer you the best prices in health insurance, thanks to our condition of specialized Insurance Brokers.
