Within the celebration of the 30th anniversary of HolderInvoicelast Friday the forum ’30 years of reforms: legacy and transformation’ was held, which opens a series of commemorative events that will last throughout 2023.
In this first space, several experts participated in three large blocks in which the reforms of health, pension and laboraland the energy panorama of the country.
(Anif questions which reforms can ‘complicate’ the PND).
Fernando Ruiz, former Minister of Health and Jaime Arias, rector of the Central Universityparticipated in the first panel in which the health reform was analyzed.
In his speech, Ruiz highlighted the learning curve that the health system has had in the last three decades, an evolution that according to him “We can not lose”.
(30 years of reforms in the country: their legacies and transformations).
According to the former minister, the Colombian health system has become more sophisticated in the offer of services, which means that today we have very specialized niche institutions that treat various diseases such as diabeteshe cancer, among others. For his part, Jaime Arias stated that “a new health reform project was not needed” in Colombia and said that what the current system requires can be done with decrees or budgets.
For Arias, Law 100 in health, pensions and occupational hazards It is the most important public social policy that the country has made in its history.
in the second block Santiago Montenegro, president of Asofondos; Luis Fernando Mejía, director of Fedesarrollo; Gustavo Morales, president of Fasecolda; Christian Stapper, vice president of Fenalco, and Charles Charpman, founding partner of Charpman Wilches They analyzed the reforms to the pension and labor system presented by the Government.
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For Montenegro, the pension reform project “It’s some kind of tax reform in disguise”, since it raises taxes and contributions from contributors to be directed to public funds in order to finance the system subsidies contemplated in the proposal.
Regarding the labor reform for the director of Fedesarrollo, Luis Fernando Mejíathe problem facing the labor market is not wages, but productivity, which is very low and “that is where one of the great emphasis that the reform must incorporate”.
(For Fedesarrollo, the country must contribute to the vision of change).
Faced with this panorama, he sees it necessaryStrengthen aspects such as training for work and reflect on the relevance of the education that we are giving to young people, who cannot quickly engage in the labor market”.
Finally, he said that the country must contribute to the vision of change that society demands and that was the reason why President Petro was chosen.
(If health reform falls, there would be a positive economic impact).
“I believe that we must all contribute to that vision of change, to that vision of structural reformsMejia said.
in the last block Natalia Gutiérrez, president of Acolgen; María Fernanda Suárez, president of Accenture, and Juan Ricardo Ortega, president of Grupo Energía de Bogotá, they released the x-ray of the sector, in which great progress stands out.
They say that “Colombia has a clean, efficient and reliable energy matrix”. They agree that the effects of climate change must be fought, but that this transition must be ordered to avoid economic impacts and shortages.
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