The article describes the tortuous path that led to regulatory comply with the provisions of Law 100 of 1993, regarding the unification of the contents of the health benefit plans of the contributory and subsidized regimens. The late unification favored health inequity, difficult real access to services and deteriorated public health indicators, leading to citizens Guardianship used as a means to guarantee this fundamental right, which was an increase from the attentions of high cost recovered the Solidarity and Guarantee Fund (FOSYGA). Faced with this problem, the Constitutional Court judgment T-760/2008, impels the national government to unify the contents of the plans, as a way to achieve equity in the health system. However, this delay became a factor in causing the crisis of the system.