Health service in Colombia: ¿How meritory and public is this good or service?

Abstract

The controversy in the delivering of the public health service in Colombia it is deployed in a different manner, either in the public institutions or in the academic arena. This situation affects the development of the public health sector policy given that this service is associated with the economic, social and cultural rights and the misrecognition of the principle that, essentially, this service should be a meritory one given its characteristics but in the practice its becomes ina preferential public good.