EPS Sura, Sanitas and Compensar On July 27, they sent a letter to the Minister of Health, Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo. In the letter, due to the difficult financial situation in the healthcare sector, They foresee serious difficulties in continuing their activities after September of this year.
Alfonso, whom EPS had requested a meeting in the last hours, spoke about this issue. “It is important to determine whether sufficient resources are available.. (…) They tell us about the losses but not the gains of 2020 and 2021. “This government adheres to everything budgeted religiously,” he said.
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“No Colombian can be told that they are not provided with a service that EPS is obliged to pay, if that money is the same as the money each Colombian deposits through taxes and the payments we earn. Contribution regime so that we can be healthy. So please let’s not talk where there are no crises.The Minister of Health added.
In the same vein, President Gustavo Petro stated:
“Three EPS reported that they had liquidity problems due to ADRES not paying them. This is not true“.
The President announced on X (formerly Twitter) that the health system is funded by the end of the year. In addition, the Government increased the Ministry of Health budget by 25 percent in 2023.
“The national government has decided to multiply the value of Units Per Capita, the base on which EPS is paid, by the number of participations. This increase is 16.2% per year, well above the annual inflation rate of 11%, which is 16.2% per year. continues,” wrote President Petro.
As noted by Erwin Hernández, PhD and PhD at La Sabana University. In an interview with EL TIEMPO Health Unit in the field of Clinical Research, The financial crisis with EPS is not a new problem; on the contrary, it is a hereditary condition and different actors have already accumulated making some proposals to respond to the crisis.
In the broadcast, the head of state also launched a harsh criticism of EPS.
“Despite these increases, we have received 1,300,000 complaints, of which 494,000 are people who are dying due to the demand for life, i.e. EPS not responding correctly, and go to the Inspectorate to take action and save their lives.
“If government payments have increased significantly, why isn’t Eps paying for hospital and clinic services?” he said.
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Also, according to Petro, The government has stepped in to monitor and control irregularities. He believes that “dissatisfaction” stems from this.
Regarding the alleged irregularities, he said: “EPSs cause service disruptions by concentrating payments on companies and clinics close to their owners and managers, and under-billing the rest. In this way, the public resources we provide are transferred to other people. Pockets are filled irregularly and EPS owners are and public and private networks unconnected with their managers are being disrupted”.
Finally, he stated: Inspectorate has the mandate to ensure that high public resources are not wasted to provide better health care to citizens
Former President César Gaviria said in a statement that the crisis was caused by “structural problems that were not corrected by the current Government and, more importantly, deliberately aggravated by inefficient management and leadership”. controversy health reform It created an environment of legal uncertainty, “drastically eroding the investment climate, and prevented significant fresh resources from being able to mitigate the looming crisis.”
The politician, who is the leader of the Liberal Party, insisted that the draft Law on health reform presented by his party be discussed.
“The Government and the Minister of Health are responsible for ensuring the adequate management of the General Social Security System in Health through the allocation of necessary resources, the production of policies aimed at strengthening risk management in health, and the establishment of continuous dialogue with countries and the production of constructive policies.” different agents who are part of this today,” he said in the text.
(Read the full statement: César Gaviria speaks for the EPS crisis: insists on health reform)
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