The Minister of Health, Maria Begona Yarzacame out to clarify the statements of the national director of the National Health Fund (Fonasa), Camilo Cid, who pointed out that the isapres “will disappear from the social security map” with the initiative of the Universal Health Fund promoted by the Government of President Gabriel Boric .
Faced with this scenario, the head of the Minsal expressed in 24 hours that “we have met with the isapre organization and with the clinic organizations, and what our program indicates and what we have proposed to these organizations is that the reform that we want and that universal system that we want is a system that must be built step by step”.
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Yarza stressed that they will be holding meetings to assure the isapres and their affiliates, once the Universal Health Fund is imposed, so that they are not abandoned “from one day to the next.”
“In this step-by-step path that we have to take, the incumbents, those of us who participate in the health system today, are part of the conversations. It seems to me that for the isapres we also have a path and it will not be anything in collapse. Here there are no magical acts that change things one day to the next, this is a process and we have imagined it that way,” he said.
The Secretary of State pointed out that all the actors will be important when it comes to giving way to a new health system, but “even more relevant are the people and we are going to take care not only of the people who are in the National Fund for Health with measures that we are taking, but we also have to take care of the people who are in the isapres “.
Finally, he indicated that “so no one is going to be left or abandoned, nor are the changes overnight. They are discussed, progressive, gradual, step by step and with the incumbents, by the way.”
