Roy Barreras and Carolina Corcho ‘sign peace’ after disputes over health reform. Twitter.

After the President of the Senate, Roy Barrerasmarked as “arrogant” to the Minister of Health, Caroline Liegein the context of the discussion of the health reformon the morning of Wednesday, March 15, they “smoked the pipe of peace” and came together to make peace.

This was announced by the congressman through his social media, where he disclosed the details of the meeting with the head of the Ministry of Healthwhich rightly earned him severe questions from several of his teammates such as Barreras and the current former Minister of Education Alexandre Gaviriawho left the government after questioning the aforementioned project.

Roy Barreras expressed his disagreement with the declarations and management of Minister Carolina Corcho, who also blamed doctors for being responsible for the budget deficit of the health system.  Image: GlobeLiveMedia
Roy Barreras expressed his disagreement with the declarations and management of Minister Carolina Corcho, who also blamed doctors for being responsible for the budget deficit of the health system. Image: GlobeLiveMedia

Well, on this occasion, the senator of the Historical pact stressed that after his meeting with Corcho, he will provide your support to move forward with some of the ambitious projects proposed by the President of the Republic, Gustavo Petro: “Dialogue and agreement are bearing fruit and paving the way for fair, viable and far-reaching social reforms that improve lives Colombians,” said the president of the Senate on his Twitter account.

However, the hard-core Cali politician again urged the minister to “build on what has been built” and asked him, indirectly, to take into account the appreciations which, from different sectors, were made to him for the health reform project which is already being processed within the legislature and was presented during a pompous event at Narino Palace.

“Reforms involve transitions. As we have always said: build on what has been built. Enjoy the good. Right the wrong,” Roy Barreras said alongside a photograph of him posing next to Minister Corcho, hand in hand.

Roy Barreras and Carolina Corcho 'sign peace' after disputes over health reform.  Twitter.
Roy Barreras and Carolina Corcho ‘sign peace’ after disputes over health reform. Twitter.

By making peace between senator and minister, health reform begins to emerge float in Congress because, it was assumed, given Barreras’ reluctance to the project, that it would be tambaleando However, now the debates that will seek to make it a law of the Republic will begin.

Perhaps the greatest criticism of this initiative, which aims to change the way health services are delivered in Colombia, comes from the same groups in the government judiciary as The U, the conservative and the liberal. For this reason, the Head of State, Gustavo Petro, met with the leaders of these political houses to reach agreements.

Among what has been agreed will be a blended care model. In addition, the national government has accepted the figure of health managers for the EPS, who will receive 5% for the articulation of the health risk. In addition, the debts that the EPS has settled with the hospitals will be paid with the future terms of the nation’s budget.

“The private will be with a joint of some health and life managers who will be different because today they will not receive the resources. They will not have vertical integration, nor a dominant position, which is very important,” said Dilian Francisca Toro, president of the Partido de La U, after meeting with members of the national government.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro shows the proposal to reform the health system before presenting it to Congress in an act at the Nariño presidential palace in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, February 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Colombian President Gustavo Petro shows the proposal to reform the health system before presenting it to Congress in an act at the Nariño presidential palace in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, February 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

For his part, the President of the Conservatives assured that the Administrator of the Resources of the General Social Security Health Regime It must have support so that, gradually, this initiative can materialize: “Current EPS continue as health managers, to build on what has been built, but as we expressed in our project in turn by the Adres and without vertical integration, it will be progressive as the Adres prepares. So there will be a transition period to be agreed,” said Efraín Cepeda.

This Wednesday, moreover, President Petro will meet César Gaviria, leader of the Liberal Party, to take decisions on health reform.

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