The CLAPES UC Seminar “After approval of the Short Law: the scenarios that open for the health sector” was held at the Extension Center of the Catholic University. Seminar in which our president, Dr. Anamaría Arriagada, participated together with Dr. Álvaro Erazo, Dr. Víctor Torres, Superintendent of Health; Gonzalo Arriagada, President of the Isapres Association and Javier Fuenzalida, President of the Board of Directors of Clinics of Chile.
After the approval of the Isapres Short Law, a new scenario is approaching in regulatory matters and coverage in the field of Fonasa and Isapres. The important changes and their complexities will have a strong impact on the relevant actors such as general insurance, private health providers and the affiliates themselves.
“These spaces are very important, because the different actors are able to listen to each other, to respond, and because in this discourse we realize the points in common that we have and that allow us to continue moving forward. Furthermore, it is important because in some way they translate the relevance of the Medical College, as the professional college with the most influence in this discussion. Not to use it from a point of view of power, but being responsible for relieving the rest of the health team and above all the patients and users,” said Dr. Anamaría Arriagada.
The Medical College has been emphatic in pointing out how important it is to incorporate health logic into the design of the health system. That is, focus on people’s health needs; in matters as important as the MLE, resource management, defining certain criteria for the use of complementary insurance that provide sustainability to the system, ensure efficient use of human resources, infrastructure and impact on lower out-of-pocket expenses. In parallel to the strengthening of Fonasa, which will also be real to the extent that its tariffs are closer to real costs.
“As a Medical College, what we also socialized was to strengthen the institutions so that what is happening today with the Las Condes Clinic does not happen again. And we deal with it a bit as a case, an emblematic case of a private institution that was a leader in many important issues of public and private health, and that today is experiencing a situation of a crisis of its institutional ethics, a labor crisis, layoffs massive, unjustified, debts that are not paid, and that, in some way, is like a point that allows us to say, well, what Superintendency do we need so that this does not happen again in the country? “said Dr. Arriagada.
Check here the broadcast of the CLAPES UC Seminar: “After approval of the Short Law: the scenarios that open up for the health sector.”
