During its genesis people envisioned a real health system based on universal principles such as solidarity, equality, and the possibility of providing access for everyone to the new system. It would help establish a model that could be a solution to the problems of the epoch, so that people would gain a right that from that time on would be seen as fundamental because of its direct connection to the right to life. Nevertheless, representative voices from important sectors of society now tell us that the health care system has fallen into the hands of intermediaries and business people whose sole preoccupation is money, money, money. In other words, they say the health care system has fallen into the hands of people who care little, if at all, about the well being of our patients.
La ley 100 de 1993 contó tanto con importantes partidarios como con notables detractores, que durante su génesis presagiaban un verdadero sistema de salud, que a partir de principios universales, como la solidaridad, la equidad y la posibilidad de acceso para todos, contribuiría a establecer un modelo que fuera la solución a los problemas de la época, para que las personas tuvieran alcance a un derecho, que desde ese entonces se vislumbraba como fundamental por su directa conexión con el derecho a la vida; sin embargo, voces de sectores importantes y representativos, aún hoy vigentes, nos anunciaban que la salud caería en manos de intermediarios y "comerciantes", a quienes con el correr de los días solo les preocuparía el lucro y poco, muy poco, el bienestar de nuestros pacientes.