10 Public healthcare and education are the backbone of a democratic and advanced society; without them, the social organism collapses into inequality and privilege. Everyone understands that public healthcare guarantees the right to life and health for all citizens, regardless of their origin or bank account. No one would accept that, while public hospitals suffer from waiting lists or staff shortages, the Government would use everyone's taxes to pay severance packages for doctors from private clinics or to finance the expansion of their real estate assets. What would seem like a scandal in the healthcare sector is exactly what the draft of the new decree on educational contracts from the Government of the Balearic Islands proposes.

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