In the Chamber of Senators, the project had the affirmative votes of 27 legislators in 29 present. Nationalists Sergio Botana and Juan Straneo voted against. While in the House of Representatives the initiative achieved 90 votes in 91 parliamentarians present. César Vega (PERI) did not vote and Gustavo Zubía from Colorado withdrew from the Chamber.
partners
The bill empowers the Executive Branch to determine the providers of comprehensive health care to which members of the Casa de Galicia institution, who are beneficiaries of the National Health Insurance, will be assigned, within a maximum period of 15 business days from the entry into force of the Law, which passed to the Executive for its promulgation.
The determination of health providers will be made among those “eligible institutions in accordance with the list and criteria of universal coverage, accessibility, and sustainability of health services, efficiency in economic and social terms, and the rational use of resources. human, material, financial and the health capacity installed and to be installed”.
Likewise, it is provided that the Ministry of Public Health will carry out the “selection” of health providers based on objective criteria and characteristics, such as: “the list of users may not exceed 100,000 members, it may not be composed of more of 20% of its total number of people over 65 years of age, the increase in the number of users may not exceed 15% of the total registry on the date the law enters into force, comprehensive health care providers must have their headquarters primary or secondary in the cities of Montevideo, La Paz or Las Piedras”.
On the other hand, it provides that “within a period of 30 days, users covered by the law may change their comprehensive health care provider within the established grid (four health providers).
After 24 months, users will be able to freely migrate to the health provider they voluntarily choose.
workers
On the other hand, the legal initiative establishes that employees dependent on Casa de Galicia in an effective and regular manner and professional university workers and specialist technicians, in the free exercise of their profession, who will be providing services as of December 31, 2021 , “they will be distributed proportionally to the migration of users among the comprehensive health care providers determined by the Executive Branch.”
Employees must “show up for work within a maximum period of 10 calendar days, otherwise they will not be able to occupy a new worker distribution quota, nor will they access the special unemployment subsidy regime.”
Workers who have not entered the proportional distribution, “may take advantage of the special unemployment subsidy regime.”
In another order, the State Health Services Administration (ASSE) will be empowered to “appear in the procedures for the sale of movable, immovable or intangible property owned by the Casa de Galicia institution.”
The central sanatorium of Casa de Galicia, by Millán and Raffo, will continue to provide health services to the population, in the way that will be established in the future.
