THE COLOMBIAN
The senator said that he has contradictions with some ministers.
This month will be decisive for the four-year period of the Government of Gustavo Petro. The plans include establishing the National Development Plan (PND) and the health reform in Congress, among other projects.
In particular, the initiative to give the health system a “roll” is by far the most controversial and in recent days the debate has risen in tone.
This time the one who referred was Senator Roy Barreras, a key man in pushing the reforms forward in the Legislature.
In an interview with Noticias Caracol, Barreras was clear that support healthcare reform because “the EPS should disappear to give way to some administrators of the benefits regime (…)”.
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He also specified that he does not have any contradiction with Petro’s guidelines, but he does have them with some ministers.
At this point, he gave two examples: on the one hand, he said that the Minister of Labor, Gloria Inés Ramírez, has the labor and pension reforms in her hands, and despite being a woman of the left, in the streets “you cannot see” the conflict that it has caused the health reform.
But why does the opposite happen with the latter? “The difference is that That minister (of Labor) dialogues, the Health minister does not dialogue ”.
That is why Barreras invited the Ministry of Health, Carolina Corcho, to understand that she is the minister of “50 million Colombians” and not from the NGO where he worked and “not even from the Historical Pact.”
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The statements come after a weekend in which tempers were heated.
On Saturday, Corcho criticized the EPS and the medical sector, whom he described as being capable of ending the health system in less than six months.
Alluding to a recent song by Shakira, he published a controversial message on his Instagram account that he later deleted: “The EPS do not CURE, the EPS BILL”.
In addition, he assured that “the fiscal problem of this system is not the mayors and governors, who have nothing to do with it here, are the doctors”, a fact that cost him criticism, including from Roy Barreras himself.