The ruling party of the Chamber of Deputies seeks to convert the pension moratorium project and the digitalization of medical records into law, on the last day of the extraordinary session of the National Congress.
The session, which began around 11 a.m. with the presence of 129 deputies, takes place one day before the presence of the president Alberto Fernandez in Parliament for inaugurate the 141st period of ordinary sessions.
The first of the projects contemplated in the call to the session promoted by the head of the ruling party, German Martinezestablishes a pension debt payment plan that it would allow some 800,000 people who do not have sufficient contributions to be able to access retirement.
The treatment of this initiative had failed on December 21, when Together for Change (JxC) and other opposition blocs refused to give a quorum to debate it.
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The FdT met a quorum with the support of minority and intermediate blocks, since JxC continues with its parliamentary strategy of not enabling the treatment of any other issue as long as the ruling party does not close the analysis of the political trial of the four members of the Supreme Court of Justice.
The project, presented in the Senate by the official Anabel Fernández Sagasti and with a half sanction since June 30, establishes that people of retirement age but without the required contributions may regularize missing periods up to December 2008, inclusive, with a modality payment in installments that will be discounted directly from the retirement credit obtained through the program.
On the other hand, in this Tuesday’s session, which takes place on the last day of the extraordinary period, the Lower House seeks to convert into law the project that seeks to establish the obligation for patients to have free access to their medical records through a system digitized throughout the country.
The project obtained a favorable opinion from the Social Action and Public Health Commission in October last year with the consensus of the ruling party and the opposition, but it could not be dealt with because Together for Change did not provide a quorum to enable the session on 21 December.
If it does not become law, it will lose parliamentary status.
The proposal creates the Single Federal Program for Computerization and Digitization of Medical Records, through which all patient information will be documented in a single system.
