[Politics] Tension with Minister Aguilera leads the Senate Health Commission to review the issue in the Political Committee

[FNX Magokiler]

Between the Senate Health Commission and the minister of the sector, Ximena Aguilera, agreements are beginning to appear, but as the urgency of the dates to comply with the rulings of the Supreme Court, both on Explicit Guarantees and Health (GES) like the isapres, the rough edges also come to light. The head of the Minsal, after a weekend with extensive presence in the media, opened a dialogue with parliamentarians on Monday. However, official and opposition figures, despite appreciating the meeting, pointed out that they now wanted to dialogue with the Political Committee and, thus, find out the true intentions of the Government regarding the future of the health system.

At the beginning of the week, Minister Aguilera invited parliamentarians to the Ministry of Health to address the crisis in the sector and, in particular, the steps to follow regarding the rulings issued by the Supreme Court. Although the Executive and Legislature commented that agreements were reached, for the senators the dialogues with the Secretary of State are not sufficiently illuminating.

The president of the Health Commission, socialist senator Juan Luis Castro, after the meeting, maintained that from said instance there is an intention to “agree with the Government, but that requires dialogue with it at all levels, because here there are proposals that are structural”.

A day later, on Tuesday, Castro insisted and revealed that on that occasion the minister was also asked to hold a meeting with the Government's Political Committee, as soon as possible. The tentative date was today, Wednesday.

 

 

The senator explained that at the meeting at the Minsal he proposed, together with the other senators, "to have a conversation at the highest level with the minister, but also with the Minister of Finance, with the Minister of the Segpres or the spokesperson."

According to the parliamentarian, “the short law by itself does not solve the crisis” and added that this is even a diagnosis shared by the Minsal. That is why the solution “requires deep decisions and those have to be made by the Political Committee,” Castro said.

From the same commission, but from the opposition, Senator RN Francisco Chahuán maintains the same: “There is no more time left and that is why I demanded yesterday, after the meeting with the minister, that the meeting with the Committee of Ministers should be maximum this week".

Chahuán's evaluation of the management of the crisis is not optimal: “Efforts are measured by results and, unfortunately, on the issue of the Isapres crisis, both the ministry and the Government have reacted very slowly for what is really "I expected and avoid the uncertainty that those affiliated with the public health system are experiencing and also the 6 million Chileans who receive care under the modality of free choice."

For his part, Senator Castro analyzes that, regarding the meeting with the head of the Health portfolio, in which "it was established that this is the crisis and it has systemic effects even down to the public health system," his evaluation It is subject, then, to the “sense of reality and, therefore, whatever the minister's management has to be in accordance with that level of seriousness.”

 

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