Since his campaign, President Gustavo Petro spoke of doing an important restructuring of the EPS and it was even thought of eliminating them to create a different system than the one that governs the country today.
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Currently, the Health portfolio, under the leadership of Minister Carolina Corchothe debate continues to generate several questions about the future of these entities that provide health services.
For her, delegating this service to third parties decreases the quality of the service provided to users. This in response to the document that is preparing for health reform.
“A health reform document circulated that does not correspond to the draft version that the Government is going to publish. Perhaps the last week of October or the first of November, I don’t want to commit to a date. The commitment is that the draft is published for comments from all the actors in the system.Cork assured.
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According to Carlos Neira, an expert in public health at the Manuela Beltrán University, he told City Tv, he clarified that the ffunctions of the EPS can be delegated to other institutions “which should not necessarily compromise the provision of the service as such”.
With this document, according to the senior official, the aim is to guarantee the right of Colombians to access to health and to eliminate barriers of intermediaries in the provision of services.
For her part, Lady Cantor, an expert in public health, made a call regarding this process: “It will take time and it must be a gradual process so that while this transition of health services from private to the State is being made, it is guaranteed that the services will continue to be provided“.
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For the Minister of Health, the liquidation of the EPS is imminent because only 4 of them comply with what is required by law to operate. “It is not that the reform is going to produce that, that happened. Facing the real imminence, we started with 200 EPS and dozens of these have been liquidated. It is most likely that more will continue to be liquidated. Not because it has been induced, but because it is the law and the Constitution,” Corcho pointed out.
For the professor of law at the Central University, Carlos Dávila, faced with the option of eliminating the EPS, he says that it is possible without the need for a constitutional reform only legal. “That is, a modification of Law 100,” she says.
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