2023-05-24 11:12:29
07:02 AM
The health reform it was unlocked in Congress and on Tuesday night it passed its first debate in the Legislature. Before the first approval of the document, the EPS union (Acemi) expressed its concerns with what, if it becomes law, will be the new State Health policy in Colombia.
The Colombian Association of Comprehensive Medicine Companies, Acemi, rejected that article 4 of the bill – which defines the health model – “continues to generate risks” for the current system because it proposes changes that, they consider, “radicals”.
“It destroys the concept of social security and limits it to the collection of resources. Eliminate basic insurance concepts such as premium and benefit plan. Eliminates insurer figure (EPS) and basic financial notions such as technical reserves, investments and technical equity”, Acemi indicated.
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Well, in the first debate, 14 new articles were approved and nine were eliminated. For now, the path that remains for the EPS is to become the so-called Primary Care Centers (CAPS).
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“On paper, in two years all Colombians would be assigned to one of the two thousand CAPS that should be in operation by then. All this, even though today there are no resources or capacities or the information system only public that would make the model viable”, added Acemi.
It is that with the Health reform, which is being processed in Congress, the EPS would stop managing the resources to give them to the Adres and, in this way, that entity would be in charge of transferring the money to pay salaries, medicines and other costs of the system.
The union added that the reform would, eventually, lengthen the waiting times for access high-cost specialty medicine and patient care services.
At the moment, the health reform has not yet completed all its debates in Congress and the government would take the option of extraordinary sessions so that its reform is approved before the start of the new legislative period.
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