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Large Spanish protest against health privatization
Source: Associated Press
Large Spanish protest against health privatization
AP foreign, Monday January 7 2013
HAROLD HECKLE
Associated Press= MADRID (AP) — Thousands of Spanish medical workers marched through downtown Madrid on Monday to protest against budget cuts and plans to partly privatize their cherished national health service.
The march is part of a series of such demonstrations, described as a "white tide" because of the color of the medical scrubs many protesters wear. Participants on Monday walked behind a large banner saying, "Health care is not to be sold, it's to be defended."
Monica Garcia, spokeswoman for the Association of Medical Specialists of Madrid, which initiated the march, said her organization would continue to protest "the loss of our public health care, a national heritage that belongs to us and not to the government."
She said the regional government was trying "to obtain economic benefit" from a system it had not invested in.
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AP foreign, Monday January 7 2013
HAROLD HECKLE
Associated Press= MADRID (AP) — Thousands of Spanish medical workers marched through downtown Madrid on Monday to protest against budget cuts and plans to partly privatize their cherished national health service.
The march is part of a series of such demonstrations, described as a "white tide" because of the color of the medical scrubs many protesters wear. Participants on Monday walked behind a large banner saying, "Health care is not to be sold, it's to be defended."
Monica Garcia, spokeswoman for the Association of Medical Specialists of Madrid, which initiated the march, said her organization would continue to protest "the loss of our public health care, a national heritage that belongs to us and not to the government."
She said the regional government was trying "to obtain economic benefit" from a system it had not invested in.
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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10600235
