The president of the Party of the U, Dilian Francisca Toroassured that with the modifications made to the health reform that the Government presented to Congress‘the ghost of returning to the old Social Security disappears’, which has been one of the greatest fears generated by the initiative.
in dialogue with RCN Radiothe ex-governor of Valle said that “There will be a mixed system, it will no longer be a totally public system with a single huge EPS, that was practically going to be like Social Security, that disappears.”
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He added that “now there will be private and public and of course there will be competition, because what needs to be improved is the attention to citizens”.
Dilian Francisca Toro indicated that after the meeting of the bench with the president Gustavo Petro, It was possible to have a dialogue in which the changes proposed by the community regarding the reform were analyzed, while he added that “he also made us aware of his red lines.”
noted that the EPS will have a shared risk with the State and will have a profit of 5%. “The EPS are not going to receive money, the resources will be received by the Addresses, so the EPS will not have those technical reserves that they had before. However, they will have a patrimony in case of risk that will be shared with the State. This point was discussed with Health Provider Companies and they agreed,” he said.
“We do not make laws so that the EPS agree or not, but it is necessary to take into account that they can be sustainable,” he added.
According to the former congresswoman, “The EPS currently have primary care centers and these will continue to operate. They will also have to go with groups to the homes of the patients, to be able to identify what the health problems of the families are.”
He added that “now it will be much easier to reach the medicines to the housesthat is to say that they will have a service closer to the community”.
