Abstract

HERRERA LLAMAS, Jorge Antonio; GARCIA ALARCON, Rodrigo Hernán  and  HERRERA AGUILAR, Karen. The Colombian health system bioethics dilemma: between the free market and the state regulation. Rev. Bioética y Derecho [online]. 2016, n.36, pp.67-84. ISSN 1886-5887.  https://dx.doi.org/10.1344/rbd2016.36.15377.

The article analyzes the crisis of the Colombian health system subject to market economy model with state regulation from the Law 100 of 1993. Its focus is to reflect on the concept that the model gives health expense as an investment subject to market forces and consequentially, with an expected rate of return. By analyzing official statistics and surveys of user satisfaction structural crisis affecting the provision of public health as a system, involving economic, political and social variables debela. The interdisciplinary approach to the study theme allows further analysis from the reflection of the moral and ethical values that should accompany the health care, as well as the economic vision of his administration. Bioethics, health and economy are factual descriptors of a system in structural crisis that fuels the social pathology of poverty.

Keywords : bioethics; market economy; poverty; health system.

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