After the pronouncement of the Government spokeswoman Camila Vallejo in front of the statements of the former head of the portfolio, the Minister of Health, María Begoña Yarza, responded to Jaime Mañalich; who criticized the current administration’s Zero Copayment program for patients of the National Health Fund (Fonasa).
In an interview with Radio Duna, the former Minister of Health of the government of Sebastián Piñera said that the announcement of President Gabriel Boric “does not accept the principle of legality in which the Government has to act” and also pointed to a relationship of the announcement with the constitutional plebiscite. Minister Yarza dismissed Mañalich’s claims, pointing out that the issue “was already in our government program.”
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“We in the program have two main pillars, a first stage that has to do with the pandemic and take charge of the waiting lists, and on the other hand, there was this dream in the program that was a universal health system, and in the universal system a first barrier is the economic,” said Dr. Yarza, in conversation with Chilevisión.
“It catches my attention, because he is someone who knows the health system. The change that we make only requires a decree, signed by the Minister of Health and Mario Marcel, Minister of Finance, and the decree of budgetary change for 2022 and for 2023 also the same. It does not require law, we have not committed anything illegal, that is in Article 161 of Decree with the Force of Law No. 1,” the minister emphasized. And he affirmed that the fact “is not only not illegal, but it is fair, it is good, a correct measure, it points to the place we want to reach and today towards September 1 it is concrete.”
Regarding the relationship of the government announcement with the Plebiscite of Exit of the proposal of New Constitution, the head of the Minsal said that “it has nothing to do” and “what it does have to do, is the signal of our Government that what we commit, we do.”
In the same interview, the Minister of Health also assured that there will be more doses of reinforcement against Covid-19, because “this is here to stay”, although she specified that the question is when and to whom, ruling out that for now it is necessary.
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