Carlos Rus Palacios, general secretary of the Alliance of Spanish Private Healthcare (ASPE), the association of private hospitals and private health centers in Spain, delivers his message on the importance of the private sector within Spain’s healthcare system and the shift in mindset that must be realized by health stakeholders in order to embrace the collaboration between the two sides.
Private healthcare performs more than 30 percent of health activity [in Spain], so if it did not exist, public health would face a significant increase in the consumption of resources, both economic and of other types, that would make very difficult to sustain the system as we know it
