Health reform remains one of the most important issues on the national agenda. Recently it became known that the Liberals, Conservatives, and the U.S. Party They will make their own proposal.
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On February 21, after the Minister of Health introduced, in the Seventh Committee of the House of Representatives, a bill that included health reform, the President again expressed his support via Twitter.
After a meeting of the representatives of the three traditional parties with the national government, it was announced that they would draw up an article demanding various amendments to the existing project which had not been approved.
u party chief, Dillian Francesca ToroThey confirmed that they had expressed many concerns to the government, including that they do not yet know which entities will be responsible for managing health and financial risks.
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We’ve expressed some concerns, including, for example, that we didn’t see who was managing the health risks, and we didn’t see who was managing the financial risks. This means that a person who arrives at a primary care center will be treated and will go to another condition due to: There will be difficultiesDelian Francisca Toro said, on behalf of the Liberals, Conservatives and the Partido de la U.
Likewise, he stressed that the important thing to keep in mind in health reform is that the freedom of free choice should not be lost. “It is very important and is included in the legislative act and We can’t edit it here because it’s rightsaid the President of the United States.
Minister Carolina Curcho defended health reform: “EPS doesn’t care about you”
In her speech, the Minister of Health once again attacked EPS, stressing that it did not fulfill its role in “risk management” and did not manage resources adequately, which is why “it owes more than $23 billion.”
After expressing their concerns about various repair points, according to Toro, the three parties pledged to submit a new proposal.
“The three parties will submit an article that amends the law so that we build on what has been built and can improve the system and give it the possibility, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, the remote population, to get that comprehensive care that it deserves,” via Dilian Francisca Toro.
According to what is detailed in the policy, in the form visualized by the representatives of the three parties, it will become EPS “Health and Financial Risk Managers”, In this sense, “rotation and vertical integration” will be removed.
Thus, EPS will continue to be an expression of all services that patients need. However, they will be integrated with the health secretariats, in order to ensure that they are not only contracted with their clinics, but that the institutions are taken into account according to the quality of the services they provide.
Finally, the President of the Partido de la U confirmed that the representatives of the sects left the meeting with President Gustavo Petro calm, since it is clear that the Supreme Chief He listens and intends to intercede for the best for the Colombians.
The Department of Finance and Public Credit has released cost figures for the health reform bill that was introduced two weeks ago in the Congress of the Republic. This, given the controversy that exists in the country about the cost of implementing the health reform proposed by the government of Gustavo Petro, which according to a report by Cambio and Radio W, It will cost 90 billion dollars.
According to the portfolio, the figures were arranged by the Ministries of Health and Social Protection, Finance and Public Credit and confirmed by President Petro.
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