Chamber of Representatives Health Reform Debate: Minute-by-Minute Updates

2023-12-05 00:57:47 After a complicated advance through the legislature, this Monday the health reform was just five articles away from ‘seeing white smoke’ in the plenary session of the House of Representatives. The controversial project, whose discussion has been stopped on several occasions, saw slow progress today with the approval of four articles, but was … Read more

High-Ranking Website: Turbulent Week for the Health System and the Crisis in the Health Reform Debate

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 … Read more

High Number of Complaints Against EPS: Superintendency of Health Report Reveals Concerning Trend

2023-09-22 21:40:48 From January to July of this year, 816,555 complaints have been submitted to the Superintendency of Health due to the poor functioning of the EPS between the contributory and subsidized regime in the different departments of the country. Read also: (This is how the accidental commission will work to reconcile health reform). During … Read more

Health Reform Debates Suspended: Subcommittee to Review Proposal

2023-09-06 16:02:36 The health reform continues to face a complex passage through the Legislature. After taking a few steps yesterday to advance in the plenary session of the Chamber, today the president of that corporation, representative Andrés Calle, informed that the debate on the reform will be suspended until the subcommittee that was defined to … Read more

Understanding the Main Access Barriers in the Colombian Health System: An Analysis of the Proposed Health Reform and Lessons from Other Countries

2023-05-27 17:04:00 Generic Opinion EE Photo: Diego Peña Pinilla Vilfredo Pareto was an eclectic Italian economist who was born in the mid-19th century and named after, some say in an unfair attribution, a fairly reasonable notion of efficiency. Pareto efficiency in the context of public policy decision-making is achieved when a policy decision improves the … Read more

“Health Reform in Colombia: EPS Transformation into Life and Health Managers”

2023-05-19 00:54:00 The EPS must become Life and Health Managers. Photo: Oscar Perez The Seventh Commission of the House of Representatives approved on Wednesday night a series of articles that represent some of the most key issues of the health reform project of the Government of Gustavo Petro. Among them, for example, is the fundamental … Read more