Senator and former President Álvaro Uribe will reveal a dark panorama regarding Colombia’s health system if the reform proposed by the Petro government is approved. A “withered” road and full of total state control is the prophecy that marks the politician facing the points of the project.
“Health will change from a mixed and supportive system to a system of state control (…). Ultimately, (health) will be consolidated as an absolute state monopoly,” the former president initially stated in a two-page text shared through his official Twitter account he also videotaped.
According to what the right-wing leader has stated, health centers will become politically oriented and have special interests, which will make users dependent on them and instead of resorting to the protection action, will ask for help from politicians close to them. the national government to demand the guarantee of the right to health.
“The health centers, under state control, which is much more than supervision, will be the entities that will have the connection and the attention to the users. These, the users, will risk that their health depends on the political orientation of these centers “, he emphasized.
He also added: “we will have to ask for help from politicians close to the government. The EPSs will be left with no administration of health risks, nor the rationalization of resources.”
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Source: El Heraldo
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