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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Manuel Rueda

Insurance company Sura withdraws from Colombia's health system as government pushes for control

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Colombian insurance company Sura announced on Tuesday that it will withdraw from the nation’s health system because the resources it receives from Colombia’s government to manage more than 5 million patients are not enough to cover its growing costs.

Opposition leaders regretted the company’s decision and accused Colombia's first left wing government of trying to push private insurers out of the health care market in order to force Colombians to use publicly owned insurance companies.

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