:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/72LNSTXUNNGZHLWMJ76SX2B32M.jpeg "Roy Barreras says Carolina Corcho 'ideologically entrenched' herself with health reform 1")
He President of the Senate, Roy Barreras, pointed out that the Minister of Health, Carolina Corchobecame “ideologically rooted” with the Law Project who wants to change everything health system in Colombia.
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Although Barreras stressed that he is not against health reform – since it was one of the premises for which the President Gustavo Petro won the elections the Minister of Health failed to reach a consensus with the groups and sectors directly concerned, how is that of patients with serious diagnoses which are supported by Health promotion companies, EPS.
The President of the Senate underlined in an interview with On the Radio that a minister is due to the entire Colombian population, not just to the 11.5 million who voted for Gustavo Petro, for whom he should try to “seduce, convince and explain” the benefits of health reform that he proposes, and not simply close himself to dialogue because he has the unconditional support of the Head of State.
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“The key in all democratic governments is to dialogue, to ‘seduce’ to reach agreements,” Senator Roy Barreras told the station.
Roy Barreras pointed out in this media that the conflict between the ministerial portfolio on behalf of health reform is palpable and well known in the media, and pointed out that this “ideological rooting” It is not because Corcho is on the left, because the Minister of Labor, Gloria Inés Ramírez Ríos, is also of this ideology and belongs to the Colombian Communist Party, but that did not prevent her from reaching a consensus as important with the businessmen and unions that he established current legal minimum wage for this 2023.
The health reform establishes that 11 million users of the entities in liquidation migrate to the New EPS
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“Any reform requires listening to all Colombians. The president establishes his cabinet, but each minister has his character,” said the president of the Senate.
Finally, Roy Barreras pointed out that what should be explained in more detail is the transition process from the current model, which has as an important element the PES and total administration of Adres (Resource Manager of the General Social Security Health Scheme) in a system that will focus on the preventive treatment of disease; especially in rural areas of the country.
At present, it could be established that there is no unity within the ministerial cabinet due to the discord generated by the health reform. A staunch critic within the same government was the Minister of Education, Alejandro Gaviriawho also served as Minister of Health under the presidency of Juan Manuel Santosand that he does not share that the abolition of the EPS is the solution to reach a greater number of people served in the rural areas of the country.
To the complaint on the structuring of the health reform was added Ministers José Antonio Ocampo, Cecilia López, and the Director of the National Planning Department, Luis Alberto Rodríguez.
The ministers are summoned by the president, who asks everyone to write a report on the technical drawbacks of the health reform and submit it to him.
According to a report from magazine of change, Laura Camila Sarabia Torres, Chief of Staff of the Presidency of the Republic, summoned each of the ministers with Carolina Corcho to attest that their objections and proposals had been taken into account, but Ocampo, Cecilia López, Gaviria and Rodríguez took with the surprise that the Minister of Health did not make any changes to the bill.
Because of the above, the ministers went to see the president, but Petro only reiterated his support for the health reform that Minister Carolina Cocho had already presented and puzzled much of the ministerial portfolio.