BOGOTA | The director of the Partido de la U, Dilian Francisca Toro, claimed on Tuesday that while the community will respect the agreements with the current Gustavo Petro on the health reform, the bank will present 133 proposals to include in the articles.
“The decision of the bank is that we are going to present 133 proposals aimed at improving the system so that it saves lives and does not destroy what we have built, but we cannot say that we are perfect with health in Colombia and it idea is to respect the agreements with the president,” the former governor told the media at the Hotel de la Ópera in Bogotá, where the La U bank met on Tuesday.
He explained that Petro’s red lines in light of the reform are primary health care and that the EPS are not insurers in the system, for which reason, he confirms, the national unit is not ignorant of what has been agreed with the head of state.
“If we leave the law as it is, we will have a fragmentation of services and the patient will not know who is taking care of him. Our concern is that the patient has someone to represent him and that he has continuous service.” without authorization,” Toro said.
In that sense, he announced that “if the proposals are not included, the party will vote negative” against the reform, but agreed that “the debate must take place in Congress and all sectors that want to contribute contribute. The newspaper is already in Congress, which is the natural setting for the debate, and these proposals will be discussed one by one.”
He added that in La U “we also agree that there is no vertical integration of the EPS, they do not manage the resources and there is no dominant position. (…) The proposals contain what is not is included in the presentation: that the health system is mixed because it is public according to the presentation, that the EPS or managers are not insurers, we accept that they are directors”.
Source: El Heraldo

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