Public Sector Contribution To Healthcare To Decline

Both Colombia's body of doctors and the national scientific association have criticised the country's emergency healthcare reform, which is to be implemented as the government aims to control ballooning healthcare costs. The government has further stated that they will force patients to go into debt in order to afford healthcare. In December 2009, highlighting declining public sector health expenditure, the Colombian government declared the country's healthcare system on the brink of collapse. Finance Minister Oscar Ivan Zuluaga claimed that the sector required a capital injection of at least US$400mn and that without financial support insurance companies would be unable to

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