The development of the General Social Security Health System after the implementation of Law 100 of 1993 up to now (a free opinion)

Abstract

This article wants to make a free analysis about the development of the General Social Security System from the moment it was implemented by virtue of Law 30, 1993 and further complementary regulations. First of all, it briefly analysis the system, taking as a reference the established principles, the National Constitution, and the Law 100; then, it continues with a critical view of it in order to determine the main failures and decisive points where corruption has severely criticized it; it has also located some actors who have taken advantage of it, and some others who have been losers both in the development of the system and in its results. Once the process of criticism and analysis has been concluded, this article presents a clear position about the General Social Security Health System, regarding structural logic it is based on, and it also adds a judgment worthy of a broader discussion on the role of the health professionals, both in their performance and as active actors to generate a change.