To be heard by President Gustavo Petro, more than 150 leaders, experts and academics sent him a letter asking him to withdraw the health reform project.
According to what these citizens stated, they are not trying to debate policies or evaluate the successes or failures of their government, but on the contrary are motivated by the desire to participate and express their views, concerns and proposals on the reforms that the De Petro government has presented itself to the congress of the republic.
“The discussion resembled a monologue imposing a single vision, which fails to take into account the risks we may face in making such drastic changes to the Colombian health system without using the existing structure to improve it and thus reduce health. the risk of implementing the changes,” the document exposes.
The signatories include names such as Alejandro Gaviria, Moisés Wasserman, Juan Carlos Echeverry, Mauricio Cárdenas, Rudolf Hommes, Sylvia Escovar, Tatiana Andia, among other well-known characters who have expressed their questions about this initiative, in addition to listing the various reasons why the project could influence the current system instead of improving it.
The letter also emphasizes that “it is worrying that we have not yet been given a clear and well-founded explanation of how the transition from one working system to another that does not exist and whose operation is not clear to more people will expired.” be implemented.” of 50 million Colombians and migrants who currently have a health plan and a guarantee of their entitlement through the EPS”.
It also adds that “the text approved in the Seventh House Committee leaves more uncertainties than certainties”.
Source: El Heraldo
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