On March 19, another episode of the series premiered. health reform, which has been at the top of the most watched in the country for more than two months. The setting was the Seventh Committee of the House of Representativeswhere the legislative process of this reform, one of the structural ones of the Government program, is advancing.
It all started Tuesday night, after the first discussion attempt was postponed due to a series of challenges presented by congressmen. According to some media, an extraordinary meeting was called between the Minister of the Interior, Alfonso Prada; the Minister of Health, Carolina Corcho; the project speakers and Verónica Alcocer, the first ladyto refine some points before the debate on the presentation of the Executive.
(Conservatives and ‘the U’ will not vote on government health reform).
The next thing on the agenda was a breakfast at 7:30 on Wednesday morning at Nariño’s house with the 21 representatives of the commission in which the reform is being processed. It was intended, according to congressmen, to get the votes for the project, but many of them did not confirm and the meeting was cancelled.
Thus, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, the second attempt to discuss the project that is intended to “transform the health system” should begin, but this time because the Ethics Commission was reviewing the challenges presented, the session was moved .
After the Ethics Commission did not accept the challenges, The debate began at two in the afternoon.
With the presence of the 21 representatives that make up the commission, the second session began in which the first debate on Bill 339 is scheduled. After the announcement of the denial of the challenges presented on Wednesday, the debate continued.
(Petro’s proposal for Venezuela to rejoin the OAS).
Before arriving at the Government, the Congressmen Juan Felipe Corzo, from the Democratic Center, and Betsy Pérez, from Cambio Radicalthey made the presentation of their file presentation of the Executive project.
In the words of representative Juan Felipe Corzo, they ask to archive the Corcho initiative because “are against bureaucratization”, which according to them is encouraged by the regional funds that are maintained in the text of the presentation.
(Clean energy, Petro’s call before U. Stanford).
Also, because “the financial viability of the Ministry of Finance and the fiscal impact that the reform would bring is a major concern”.
Another of the points for which they ask to archive the project of Law 339 is because “a mixed health system is needed” and because this proposed initiative “is unaware of progress in terms of coverage and efficiency”. As well as the burdens that the Adres would assume and its limited capacity to fulfill those functions.
(Health: the proposals that the parties did not accept).
With 17 votes against and only 4 in favorthe presentation on file did not progress and Corcho’s is maintained.
The discussion is expected to be scheduled, but as the representative Martha Alfonso Jurado, the government project “is alive.”
CLAUDIA M. QUINTERO RUEDA
Portfolio Journalist
