Do hospitals have a future?

Abstract

The public hospital crisis has resulted from the crisis affecting the system and not its cause. The future for public hospitals in Colombia remains unclear in the current healthcare insurance model, as this has been based on a free market healthcare model which is managed by private Profit- Making Organizations (healthcare-providing entity - EPS). There is also disloyal competition between hospitals and clinics belonging to these EPS and public and private entities, a type of money-grubbing war which has already been experienced in other areas of the economy, with disheartening results. Unless in-depth corrective action is taken, the public hospitals will not be able to continue carrying out their special functions, such as dealing with sectors of the population having pathologies involving low economic profitability even though being services having very high social profitability, such supply having always been present and which will continue being supplied in the future.