2023-11-01 20:48:59
After a turbulent week for the health system, with the crisis due to the shortage of medicines and the lawsuit between EPS Sanitas and Cruz Verde, it was expected that about half of the articles that were pending from the last session would be voted on today.
However, just a few minutes before there was a decision-making quorum to formally start the session, the debate on the reform was unanimously postponed.
(Read also: The controversial articles approved this week in the health reform debate)
This week the discussion between the opposition and the ruling party will revolve around the serious crisis that the health system is currently suffering.
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Chamber Press – César Melgarejo. TIME
Among what remains to be discussed are some of the most controversial articles. For example, article 131, which refers to voluntary agreements; 32, which addresses the creation of the National Health Council; or 53, with which payments to EPSs of up to 8 percent for their management are approved.
(Also read: ‘We are in the biggest crisis of the health system in 30 years’, warns Alejandro Gaviria)
Although the Government is confident that the project will be able to advance and move on to its third debate thanks to having the support of ‘the U’ and the liberals, who were essential in the last session, the truth is that what happened during the last days maintains the expectation about the executive’s ability to promote his project.
This is because congressmen from opposition sectors have accused the Government of generating a crisis in the health system with the aim of forcing the approval of the reform project.
For example, the senator of the Radical Change party, Carlos Fernando Motoa, assured, regarding the drug crisis that the country is experiencing, that the government of President Gustavo Petro “is causing a crisis in the system that justifies its health reform.” “.
While President Gustavo Petro insisted this Wednesday through his account on the social network X that the State is up to date with payments and blamed the EPS for the crisis in the health system. For this reason, he asked that the bill be approved as a mechanism to solve current problems.
“What does our health reform do? Return to the principle of the right to health mandated by the national Constitution,” said the president.
The Adres, (the state), remains up to date with its remittances to the EPS in accordance with the law. Why do the EPS have debts with public and private hospitals and with drug marketing companies, if they are paid on time?
Why do EPS turn on time and even in a manner… https://t.co/CWYERuhv4x
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) November 1, 2023
Follow the health reform debate live, minute by minute, this Wednesday, November 1:
03:36pm
Health reform debate postponed unanimously
At the request of representative Alfredo Mondragón, the debate on the reform is postponed.
3:05 p.m.
The latest records are given and there is a decision-making quorum ready to formally start the session
With the arrival of the last representatives so that there is a decision-making quorum, the congressmen present give the last statements before the debate formally begins.
2:30 p.m.
Without formally starting the debate, congressmen present leave records referring to the drug crisis and the elections
With recognition from the representatives towards their parties after the achievements obtained in last weekend’s elections, the discussion begins while waiting to complete the decision-making quorum.
Official congressmen like Alejandro Toro take advantage of the space to ensure that the drug crisis shows the urgency of approving the health reform.
While members of the opposition such as Andrés Forero assure that the elections send a message from the country against the Government.
1:23 p.m.
The start of the session is postponed to 2:00 pm
By instruction of the General Secretariat of the Chamber, the start of the session is postponed by 1 hour. It is now scheduled for 2:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
Representatives begin to arrive at Congress
The start of the session is scheduled for 1:00 pm and this begins the arrival of representatives to the Elliptical Hall of Congress where the plenary session will be held, whose first point of discussion is the Government’s health reform.
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