Health Care Reform Is Virtually Underwhelmed: Eight Senators Request Its Archive

Senator from the De La U partyNorma HurtadoJoin a group of 7 Senators from the 7th Committee who gave an archival presentation on health reform. This group is already the majority The project will practically sink. But it is not yet known, Call the committee.

And with Hurtado, there are already eight of the 14 senators who make up that committee, who are requesting its archive. Hours earlier, congressmen Lorena Ríos Cuellar (Colombia Justa Libres), Honorio Henríquez and Alirio Barrera (Democratic Center), Nadia Belil Skaf and José Alfredo Marin (Conservatives), Miguel Ángel Pinto (Liberal), and Berenice Bedoya (ASI) attended. ). They got ahead of Hurtado and made the negative bid.

“I have made the decision to support the archival display of #Health reformThis is consistent with the responsibility placed on the 50 million Colombians who have placed their trust in their representation in the Senate. Today, I believe that it is better to leave this reform aside, because it does not guarantee the necessary change in the health system in our country. Thank you for your support and trust,” the congresswoman wrote on her X account (formerly Twitter). The government needs eight votes out of 14, and hence the seriousness (of the executive authority’s intentions) that there are eight members of the Senate who have previously signed the rejection of the project.

However, health reform has not been consolidated in practice. It is necessary for Committee Chair Martha Peralta (from Pacho Histórico) to call the members of Congress to vote and to take into account both the positive offer and this negative offer. Until that happens, reform will remain ongoing. In debate, members of Congress can change their minds and vote differently, although that seems difficult to do, as El Espectador learned from teams of some congressmen.

The decision was celebrated and criticized by various parties in the political and academic arena. “Great news for Colombia. The health reform implemented by the Petro government has just collapsed. Very good for the eight senators who signed the presentation file. “Colombia won,” Paloma Valencia wrote, for example. In contrast, Rep. Martha Alfonso Jurado expressed, Which was key to the passage of the project in its first two debates in the Chamber of Deputies, expressed its concern: “You know what the situation of the regions is; that public hospitals, which are the only thing that people have access to, in more than 60% of the towns in Colombia are bankrupt because of the health system.” Current, due to non-payment and lack of flow of resources being delivered to EPS, but they are not paying the service providers.

This decision of the majority spectrum in the committee is known on the day when Health Minister Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo faces his first petition of censure. There are no known reactions from him.

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