Alternative presentation of submitted health reforms

The senator Fabián Díaz, from the Green Alliancesubmitted an alternative presentation of the healthcare reform, whose third debate in the Senate Seventh Committee was scheduled to resume next Tuesday.

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“We present our alternative presentation, through which we seek consensus and build bridges between the different sectors of the healthcare system, but also between the Senators and the National Government, in order to advance the process of a reform necessary for our country. It is important “Making changes that can improve the healthcare system.”the parliamentarian assured.

This alternative presentation was submitted after eight of the senators serving on the 14-member Seventh Committee signed a negative presentation on March 12 requesting that the reform project be archived because they considered it “inconvenient is and does not provide clarity about the means and financial sustainability of the system”.

For her part, Senator Martha Peralta, of the Historical Pact and chair of the legislative cell in question, explained that “only if the will of the senators of the Seventh Committee is present will we have the opportunity to build on a reform of health care text.” that protects fundamental rights and guarantees access to healthcare and care for users in an appropriate and quality manner.”

The official lawmaker added that the social affairs cell in Congress has done more than that 10 public hearings in several of the country’s most important cities “to ensure that all health actors are an integral part of the process in view of the discussion on the reform in the Senate of the Republic.”

Similarly, he added, seven technical tables have been established to address issues related to licensing, production and distribution of medicines, dignity of working conditions for human talent in healthcare, flow of resources , health technologies, inspection, surveillance and control, system management. service networks, among other central topics in the project.

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And Senator Miguel Ángel Pinto of the Liberal Party questioned that “It is unprecedented for lawmakers to be subjected to intimidation because they disagree with something they believe does not serve the country.” referring to the challenges presented by several speakers of the archive presentation to the apparent financing of EPS by foreign boards of directors of the political parties to which they belong.

The parliamentarian added in this sentence: ‘We have never been called to agree, to talk about this, and in the hands of these senators who today are trying to turn people against us, we leave the report of our lives behind, of the eight senators. in the presence of the Minister of Defense and the National Director of Police and his Name of President Ivan, who is willing to work together and defend the Seventh Committee.”