The presentation of the project health reform must include the proposals that the parties of the ‘U’ and Conservative they had done to the president, Gustavo Petro. The members of the Liberal Party They participated in the construction of these proposals, but later they dropped out of the initiative because César Gaviria, the natural leader of the community, considers it “unconstitutional” and they will present their own project in the following legislative period.
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In this sense, this Monday a meeting was agreed between the three parties that had built the proposals to review the draft of the paper and define their positions, but Gaviria did not attend the meeting.
As the former president told him Gaviria to El Tiempo, “they backed down what was agreed in the technical tables”. The points in which they do not coincide are in the regional funds proposed by the Government and in the percentage of money that the EPS.
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As a result of the above, they are going to present their project in the second half of the year, when the second legislative period begins.
This measure leaves the reform without a large number of votes in Congress, which makes the government project falter and risks being withdrawn, as announced by the Minister of Health and Social Protection, Carolina Cork.
(Read: Petro’s first major defeat: they withdraw the political reform project).
It remains to be seen if after the meeting, the conservatives and the ‘U’ maintain their support for the project with the inclusion of their initiatives or they also drop the government project.
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