The Minister of Agriculture, Cecilia López, who was director of social security in the nineties, also has certain remedies to the health reform that the Government established Last monday.
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In an interview with EL TIEMPO, he said that his obligation as part of the cabinet was show the complex experience he had at the head of Social Security so that the mistakes of the past are not repeated.
“I already entered the discussion. All members of the government have an obligation to say. Then I what I did was show my experience that was quite complex. I did what corresponds to me«, said.
López said that he not only managed Social Security, but also opposed Law 100 and the health reform that we have today.
«The bad thing at that time was concentrating too much on a single institution and the political management that was given to health, that is a red light that I will continue to say,» he said.
He Social Security It was a public entity in charge of social security, mainly for private sector employees with formal employment. Its process of disappearance and liquidation began in 1990 due, in part, to the excess of corruption that existed.
Social Security corruption messes
The bad thing at that time was concentrating too much on a single institution and the political management that was given to health
Specifically, from Social Security he recalled that he was struck by the high decentralization of corruption that there was and that when she arrived she found that Atlántico had spent the year’s budget in two months.
“This is just one of the countless corruption messes that have occurred when regions were unleashed and misunderstood politics. Now, not all politics is like that. However, you have to be very careful about the people who are going to manage these resources, ”he declared.
Health Minister Carolina Corcho defends the health reform.
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Preventive health, positive point
Despite these warnings, Minister López assured that the country was in arrears to present a reform and that some aspects seem positive to her, such as seeking to promote a preventive health.
“It seems to me that a health reform is needed, but one feels that after having lived through certain experiences, one does have the obligation to turn on red light bulbs and if they want to see them well, «he concluded.
The bill says that the total value of the cost of providing primary services for the Colombian population for 2023 was estimated at 24.86 trillion pesos, based on the per capita value paid for the provision of primary health services in Public hospitals.
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