The Social Democratic Party (PSD) is opposing a draft launched by the National Liberal Party (PNL) to privatise healthcare programmes, arguing that health is a constitutional right for all citizens, not just for those on a high income.
The Social-Democrats claim that "there will be fewer patients who will be able to get treated free of charge in public hospitals as increasingly more patients will have to get treated for money in privately operated clinics or hospitals."
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