There are conventions, the system will be mixed

It was learned Monday evening that President Gustavo Petro had reached an agreement on health reform with two political parties, De la Yo and Conservador, days after jointly submitting a counterproposal with the Liberal Party. This was announced by President Gustavo Petro, Dilian Francisca Toro and Efraín Cepeda in statements to the media.

With the modifications, the health system will not be entirely public but will be mixed; That is, there will be special participation in many components. Other, more relevant changes include the continuation of the EPS as health and life management entities, without vertical integration, without receiving resources or a dominant position in the system and with fewer functions; Managers will receive 5% for health risk management.

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On the financial level, with regard to indebtedness, the state assumes the repayment of liquidated EPS with future validity and will give loans to managers who are not in the best condition.

The public system, explained Dilian Francisca Toro, a doctor by profession, will consist of all the public hospital networks in the country and will be transformed into Primary Health Care Centers (CAPS). The latter shows that primary health care, one of the axes of the government reform project, will be preserved in the regions.

the address “It has to be strengthened to achieve that in the end it can be a checker and a pusher, and that takes some time, a few years.”said the bull. There will be no regional funds in the amount indicated at the beginning (7 to be exact), as it was a mechanism for the system’s nationalization of political parties.

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With the modifications to the health reform there will be a single rate system

Finally, there will be a price system with a floor and a ceiling for hospitals and clinics in the national territory, whereby the payment that the institutions will receive will be proportional to the service they provide to the users. This means that hospitals with the highest ratings will get the best prices for their procedures.

Absent from the meeting is César Gaviria, president of the Liberal Party, who did not attend due to previous commitments on his agenda. However, the agreements reached to reform the health sector will be announced at a meeting to be held in the coming days.

To date, there is no known statement from the Ministry of Health, despite the fact that the head of the bag is confirmed in And me That the project will be withdrawn if modifications are made to the original sanitary reform.

See here the results of the meeting:

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