The health care reform proposed by the government of President Gustavo Petro and Health Minister Carolina Corcho has led to proposals and counter-proposals from various political sectors that agree or break with the official articles to a greater or lesser extent.
The similarities
The government’s proposes a “mixed public and private health system”, the Conservatives speak of “strengthening the mixed insurance system” and La U proposes “continuing a mixed system, with public and private insurance, in which people are free can choose which service you want, as indicated by the Statutory Health Act”.
The executive is proposing “primary care centers (CAP) that will visit an average of 25 thousand citizens, depending on where they live or work.” For their part, the Blues believe in “strengthening primary health care, seeking equality in access”,
In addition, the U and other communities also agree with the ‘primary health care’.
The government reform says that “medical teams would routinely visit urban and rural homes to switch to a preventative health scheme.” In this sense, the Conservative Party advocates strengthening “care in the most remote rural areas of the country”.
The U in turn mentions the “comprehensive care in remote areas and scattered population”; while liberals favor “higher levels of accessibility and effectiveness through a focus on public health”.
For their part, the rojiazules propose a new model of care, focusing on family and community health, health promotion, disease prevention and comprehensive health risk management.
In this order of ideas, the uribistas propose “basic health teams in the area, characterization of the population, identification of risks” and a “model of attention in scattered marginalized areas or with low population density responsible for the state”.
In other proposals, the Department of Health says that “hospitals and clinics, including the IPS of the EPS, would be part of integrated and extensive networks with specialists who will monitor patients” and the Democratic Center calls for “extensive and integrated networks of providers and suppliers”, but “formed and managed by the EPS”.
Petro and Corcho want to “leave behind job security and training for healthcare workers, service assignments and schedule overload”.
The argument is supported by Cambio Radical, who argues that the personnel required in an institution or public or private enterprise providing health services “cannot be matched through the figure of job placement, outsourcing or under any other type of linkage”.
The official project says that “the Address will be the sole controller of the health resources, it will hand them over to the providers, something the U emphasizes. Uribismo, in turn, proposes “indicators that make it possible to measure results in terms of health, quality and efficiency in contracting”.
Source: El Heraldo
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