Gestarsaludone of the guilds of EPS of the country that affiliates close to 20 million users, presented what would be ‘the red lines’ What do you see in the presentation? health reform that was filed this Friday in the House of Representatives.
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The guild mentions that “the EPS would be condemned to disappear in less than two years and their functions would be diluted in public entities without experience or coordination“, this because in the text of the paper it is understood that the EPS, which would come to be called Health and Life Management Entitiesthey are only left with audit functions, primary care management and little else.
Additionally, they mention from the union that, by removing functions such as insuring, “the end of individual health insurance is proposed, that is, citizens are going to lose their health insurance and they will not have someone to accompany them through the services“. To which they add that “free choice would be lost in a state-owned system“.
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In this sense, Gestarsalud affirms that “heThe health of 50 million Colombians would fall back to being managed by a state-owned, politicized and fragmented health system“.
With which they ensure that the 30 years that the current health system has “would be destroyed“and I wouldn’t take advantage”the insurance model that has benefited millions of people“.
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Affirmation with which the study center agrees Fedesarrollowhich mentions that thanks to insurance is that the 93% of Colombians have access to health.
In the midst of Gestarsalud’s commitment to maintaining the EPS in the health system, they insist that “it is with the promoters that the improvements that the system needs are achieved“.
Another of the points that the union mentions is health spending with the implementation of the reform, for which they affirm that “Colombians would have to put more out of their pocket.”
As mentioned Felix Martinezdirector of the address, At the beginning of March, “health resources grow due to taxes and contributions”, which would mean that the pocket of citizens is not affected.
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