This Wednesday, the Isapres Short Law was voted in the Chamber of Deputies, a project of the Executive that seeks to ensure that private insurers comply with the ruling of the Supreme Court that forces them to adjust the price of their plans to the table unique of factors and thus return money to its affiliates for excessive charges.
The initiative obtained 123 votes in favor, eight once morest and one abstention, so it was sent to the Senate, but with modifications.
The Minister of Health, Ximena Aguilera, the Superintendent of Health, Víctor Torres, and the Minister of the Segpres, Álvaro Elizalde, were present at the event.
After the interventions of the parliamentarians, the Health Minister highlighted that the sentence “ends discrimination based on sex,” which the industry has carried out once morest women for more than 40 years. It also “reduces age discrimination,” so there will be an impact on contracts by ending overcharging, she said.
Furthermore, he stressed that the bill is a “balanced response to comply with the ruling,” and at the same time ensures that people have access to health. “It also seeks to avoid a systemic crisis of the Isapres.”
“The project does not establish a pardon or provide resources to the Isapres,” he added, pointing out that the Executive has taken responsibility for each of the consequences of applying this sentence.
After the deputies dispatch the project, the Senate must discuss it during the followingnoon. However, there are doubts regarding what might happen there, since the senators will have to define whether the law goes directly to the Joint Commission or if it goes through the Finance and Health Commissions once more, then to the Joint Commission, and finally returns to the Chamber.
In this way, the Senate must analyze all the modifications that the project has had in the aforementioned commissions. And it must also define what type the Joint Commission will be, since one analyzes certain elements of a law, while the other completely opens the project, and there it might be modified once more.
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