Dove Valencia is part of the group of congressmen who requested that the health reform who presented the National government be processed as a statutory law and not ordinarythe senator of Democratic Center He assured that the initiative touches the core of the fundamental right.
Health reform: president of the Chamber confirmed that it will be processed as ordinary law
The debate in the collegiate body was related to whether the reform was defined as ordinary or statutory
In interview with RCN Radio, the senator affirmed that the current system allows citizens the freedom to choose whether to be cared for by a Health promoting entity (EPS) of a private or public type and added that the initiative carried out by the Government Petro would be violating the right to health.
“When the Government decides that all health passes into the hands of the StateOf course, it is violating my fundamental right and that of all Colombians to choose the health system we want and for this reason, this reform is a statutory reform ”, highlighted the congresswoman, before the aforementioned medium.
Ordinary or statutory law: what is the entanglement by the procedure to approve the health reform
The type of law depends on the number of votes necessary for its approval and the time it has for discussion before being filed.
The concern of the congressmen who signed the petition is that in a ordinary law a large difference in votes is not needed to approve the project, on the other hand, in the case of the bylaws, the reform would have an even greater challenge as it would require many more votes in favor.
In the same way, Valencia He assured that the task of each citizen is to oversee the decisions of the congressmen they elected and helped reach the legislative branch to prevent this change from taking place. healthcare systemwhich he qualified as a “destructive avalanche”.
Health reform: Gustavo Petro made clear the “non-negotiable” points of the project
The President of the Republic met with members of the Green Party to discuss the initiative, including the focus on primary health
“If every Colombian doesn’t call the congressman they voted for to demand that they not destroy our healthcare systemit will be impossible. The votes of us and those of radical change there are very few to stop this destructive avalanche that the president has presented Petro”said the congresswoman.
The senator’s intervention concluded when she referred to the role of the Constitutional court against the reform, since this body could knock down the determination; “The problem would be at the time of the decision, because if the reform is carried out and the EPS are destroyed,” rebuilding them when the court rules, is a much greater challenge for the State.
Prominent health institutions in the country referred to the reform related to the Healthcare system In Colombia, from 12 associations that work in the sector, and that were part of the “Fundamental Agreements for the full development of Statutory Law 1751 of 2015”, considerations such as:
- ”The actual General Social Security System Health needs a reform that allows progress in the effective enjoyment of this fundamental right”, as established by the Health Statutory Law (LES) 1751 of 2015
- In relation to PL 339, it raises the need to strengthen the Comprehensive Primary Health Care.
- The need to strengthen the public network of health services and the obligation to provide solutions to population inequities.
- Give way to the creation and implementation of the Single Integrated Public System of Health Information.
- It is necessary to claim the autonomy of health professionals in strengthening the development of public policies for the formalization of human talent.
- Make known the risks related to the operation of the new Healthcare system to guarantee the right.
- All citizens residing in Colombia must have the same right to health, both in the long and short term.
- It is necessary to know the period delimited for the transitions scheduled within the articles in order to avoid uncertainty between the actors and the population.
He Congress of the republic brought forward a key meeting to define the future of the health reform and in this way he gave a solution to the controversy that has been related to it. After submitting the project to a vote, it was determined that it would be processed as ordinary law in the Seventh Commissionchaired by the representative Agmeth Escaf.
It is worth mentioning that the meeting was brought forward at the request Juan Carlos Willspresident of the First Commissionwho filed an appeal against the decision of the board of directors of the House of Representatives to maintain the process of health reform like a ordinary law.
During the day, a large majority was evident, since there were five votes in favour, one abstention and one absence, thus the presidents of the commissions reiterated that the health reform is a ordinary law which should be processed in this way.
