The health reform that the national government has proposed since it came to power continues to generate controversy. This time the former Minister of Mines and Energy Irene Vélez used her account on the social network
The health reforms are in their second debate in Congress, but their discussion was postponed until after the regional elections on October 31.
On this topic, the former Minister of Mines and Energy Irene Vélez, highly criticized when she held office, wrote about the topic on her X account. She spoke about the topic, and took the chorus of Shakira’s song to define them: “the EPS do not “they cure, the EPS bill”, and argued that the health reform cannot be postponed, because according to her it is a citizen certainty.
“Definitely, EPS do not cure, EPS BILL. Health as a right, with timely and comprehensive access, is urgent to dignify the lives of Colombians. The reform of the health system cannot be postponed and, no matter how much controversy and opposition, that is a citizen certainty,” Vélez said through his X account.
The former head of the Mines and Energy portfolio said that she fractured her fibula, but that the EPS denied her an MRI. She also said that they have to remove the cast in a week, but “there are no appointments in October or November.”
“Mine is a common story: I fractured my fibula. The EPS sent me an MRI, which they denied. My cast should be removed in 1 week, but there are no appointments in October or November. I have gone through calls and claim lines, but there is no way to access the service,” he narrated.
Furthermore, he added in his publications regarding the issue that there is polarization in the country and describes the health service as “terrible”: “It is not easy to put up with people’s attacks. But I understand that they originate in a history of misgovernment and the violent polarization that has been sown in the country. The truth is that we both share the ordeal of a waiting room full of people with terrible service.”
Regarding the former minister, she presented her letter of resignation from the position she held in the Government of Gustavo Petro Urrego, on July 19, and became the eleventh member of the cabinet to leave the cabinet before the end of her first year in power. .
In her resignation letter she wrote that “I decide to step away from the position of minister to prevent the investigations against me from interfering with the execution of the Government program.” It must be remembered that it was Andrés Camacho who would lead that portfolio from that moment on.
Regarding health reform, President Gustavo Petro in an interview for Cambio magazine said some time ago that “If a reform is not made to the health system, the EPS will end by themselves because it is an unsustainable economic model.” He also added that “with the EPS system it has already been shown that it is like a domino: one knocks down the other. Because? Because when a bankruptcy happens, and 80 percent have gone bankrupt, the members of that EPS go to another one designated by the government.” With Infobae
