The documentary Sicko, by Michael Moore, shook me. I was worried from the beginning, when that boy, with a needle and a thread in his hand, had to do as a surgeon to sew the cut he had in his leg. Later, in a traffic accident, the man cut off his thumb and ring finger. The lengths, $60,000; the others, 12,000. It was necessary to choose which of the two was to be. And my heart failed.

So the voice-over determined that this documentary wasn't about the 50 million people who didn't have health insurance, but about the 250 million who paid if they had insurance in the United States and yet they didn't get care.

It was 2007. Here the attack became more apparent. It comes from afar, since the General Health Act of 1986 allowed it. Then the April 1991 report, the 1997 law (with the PNV), etc. In 2007, in Madrid, the privatizing fever of Agirre worsens and worsens public health, under the mantra of immense public-private collaboration.

Then there is the crisis of 2008 and the excuse for the cuts in Brussels and Madrid. Before you realize it, 2020. And pandemic. And facing anemic public health and exhausted professionals. We realized the importance of public health. People applauded from the windows. As long as it is entertained in this folklore, there is no responsibility. And they told us that we should call them heroes, because not demanding anything is the idiosyncrasy of heroes.

Private health care has now broken out strongly, with the intention of giving the final shock. And we've learned a lot through the multiplied ads.

1. We're going to be able to use the best hospitals. I didn't know there was such a ranking. Even private hospitals are not at the top of this ranking. I know other rankings, like the one that the Federation for the Defense of Public Health published in 2019 with the most privatizing communities. The CAV ranks 5th, after Madrid, Catalonia and Islands, while Navarre ranks 10th. It seems that the PNV is a “better” manager, even after all UPN governments.

2nd They will take care of us by phone. For telemedicine flemon or conjunctivitis, maybe yes. But so far. That too has been shown to us by the pandemic. But that's the bottom line: health insurance doesn't want sick people, but young, healthy people who can be cared for through Skype. In addition...

3. If your life is healthy, you will be lowered. This thing of having the hook to get more customers soon becomes punishment. If you don't do X a day, if you're fat, you smoke, you have a history of cancer, and especially if you're old, more expensive premiums and less coverage.

Yes, this series was five or six minutes from the end. After all the expensive tests House promised in the series for rare diseases, what happened? When patients, despite having insurance, couldn't afford their extra bills, what future did they have? What happened when they had to recognize the economic failure of not going to jail?

And don't say it wouldn't be the same here. The OCU consumer organisation has warned that 24% of the policies have been exposed by the people who pay. One in four policemen. And that's last year, in the customer uptake phase. Because private health care isn't about training people, it's about making money. Behind it are the banks, the investment funds and the multinationals, and the same shareholders. If they do not care to throw people out of the house, do not let them starve to death.