La eliminación de las EPS en Colombia, una utopía sin perspectiva de cambio.

Abstract

Since the enactment of Law 100 in 1993, there have been some health intermediation entities in Colombia that at the time were called Health Promoting Companies (EPS), and that according to the norm should fulfill the following functions: promoting the affiliation of groups not affiliated with the system, capturing the contributions of affiliates to the social security health system, defining the mechanisms for access to the health system by affiliates and their families, defining the protocols that guarantee the Free access of the affiliates and their families to the health-providing institutions, to send to the solidarity and compensation fund the information regarding the affiliation of the worker and his family, to the labor news, to the collections for contributions and the disbursements for the payment provision of services, and establish procedures to guarantee timely, comprehensive, efficient and quality care.