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Colombia’s statutory insurers on edge

Colombia's Minister of Health Alejandro Gaviria discussed the country's statutory insurance crisis at the private hospital association's 2016 ACHC Congress in Bogotá. Gaviria is wary of public subsidies to statutory insurers and rules out healthcare reform over the next couple of years. Instead, he argued, the system must draw on private funds to overcome liquidity problems.

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