He public health doctor and former Vice Minister of Health Germán Escobar He spoke in La W regarding the health counter-reform proposal that three political parties will present.
According to Escobar, these two proposals coincide in “the needs that the health system needs to reach more remote regions, get closer to the regions where there has been a gap of historical inequality”.
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Regarding possible processing defects, the former vice minister explained that “in the opinion of the legal experts who have reviewed the text, it is considered that this must have a statutory treatment, to such an extent, the eventual filing would be through a first commission”.
On the other hand, he commented that “we must build on what has been built”, so the insurance model must be preserved. “This model has made it possible to advance in universal coverage, in access, financing of health costs (…) but substantial changes are made to it, controls are created that have not been had in the last 30 years”.
He also assured that they reviewed the Cambio Radical project, with whom he has some coincidences, “there have been coincidences in general, but there are differences in detail, especially in the chapters on public health and governance”.
“There must be an intelligent approach to the health system in remote areas, in a dispersed population. All municipalities must have a primary health care center, and in municipalities where there is a dispersed population, these interdisciplinary teams should be created that go to the communities”he added.
Finally, he indicated that “a structure has been observed through insurance and what is done is concentrating direct transfer functions to providers from the ADRES and the collegiate bodies that would generate a state bureaucratization of the health system are not created”.
Counter-reform to Health, what difference does it have with the proposal by the Government?
