The Minister of Health, Carolina Corcho, appeared at the Valle University Hospital in Cali, where the first public hearing on
the transformation of the health system.
The president took advantage of the opportunity and reiterated that the National Government will promote a profound reform of the hospital system and the EPS.
Corcho assured that the State will not continue paying intermediaries who hire themselves and who go bankrupt to hospitals and clinics that are not part of your business organization.
“At no time has there been talk of returning to the social security model, the model is what exists today. It was a vertical integration where workers contributed money to insurance and it had its own hospitals (…) We have to overcome this model because the State can deliver public resources to the intermediary administrator pnow that he pays himself. This bankrupts hospitals and clinics that are not even part of its vertical integration,” the official assured.
The Minister of Health confirmed that this Government received, of 32 EPS, 14 EPS in liquidation process. She said that “Today, only 4 EPSs comply with good financial and service provision indicators”.
“This does not exist in any health system in the world. In addition, hThere is another element: the aspiration of Law 100 for the EPS to be an insurer, but that was not true and the reasons are being given to us here. Of the liquidated companies there are more than $200 billion pesos that left debt, he added.
Corcho clarified that he is not once morest private initiative, but warned that the current health model it does not manage good health care and the EPSs are not insurers.
“If I have some resources and manage some contracts with hospitals so that later I can be liquidatedNo, I have to have reinsurance and that did not happen in Colombia. Facts that are lived from behind is that the vast majority do not meet the minimum requirements and that requires a way out that will have to happen in the Congress of the Republic,” he said.
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