TLC HEALTH POLICIES: CONSENSUS AND PROPOSALS WOULD
HEALTH POLICIES: CONSENSUS AND Pedro Francke
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Six political groups - the National Unity APRA party, Frente de Centro, Nacionalista Party, Union for Peru, National Socialist Party and Justice - Government plans submitted on 23 February in an event organized by ForoSalud, the Medical College and the Universidad Cayetano Heredia, where they received feedback from experts, and an interesting debate opening debate on the subject (the presentations can be seen in www.forosalud.org.pe ). Descentralista Coalition also filed its plan of government in health that week.
The presentations showed that there are some points to which there is broad consensus as to promote involvement, concern for social and environmental determinants of health and move towards universal insurance. In fact, in the same event circulated a health policy agreement is being signed by a broad group of parties.
While consensus is important, it is also true that on many issues presented several plans of government are guilty of generality and say few concrete proposals. For example, in the field of health, the proposals presented by Lourdes Flores in the recent advertisement, were not presented as central to the event held. The parties seem to prefer, in presentations like this where there is room for dialogue, and present no clear priorities a wide range of proposals, while leaving more detailed proposals to the field of propaganda. In this area, few groups have pointed out how many additional resources devoted to the health budget and where the obtained: APRA and the Socialist Party which included highlights from both.
A controversial issue in health has long been to the breakdown of health systems, including the Ministry of Health and Healing EsSalud FuerzasArmadas and the police. Except for National Unity, almost all groups pose to move towards an integration of these systems.
other hand, the issue of universal, ie ensuring that all Peruvians access to health care without paying at the time of need, was also reported by almost all, many of them emphasizing the SIS and EsSalud as moving toward this goal. None, however, came to specify what specific measures would take the matter or to which groups or extended first priority risks insurance and how much budget.
Instead, the goal of overcoming inequality figure prominently only in the plan of National Unity, but not clearly linked to policy proposals that this group poses. Other groups such as the Socialist Party and the PNUP of Ollanta Humala, rather emphasize that health should be understood as a fundamental right.
There are only two months to the elections, and just beginning to see proposals for government health plans, which still sin of generality. Hopefully in the next few weeks may have further discussions and presentations, and the public can learn more detail of specific proposals that each political group poses.
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