Rate from 1 to 10 all the items below for Buenos Aires v/s other cities. BA comes always on top for me (I speak Spanish) . Give it a Try . My rating for Thailand would be perhaps a Total of 40-
Buenos Aires Rating /My choices /Try yours
- Language 10
- Culture 8
- Cosmopolitan city 9
- Health system 10
- Connectivity 9
- Weather 8
- School system 8
- Ethnicity 8
- Migration Policies 9
- Cost of Living 10
- Total 85
Mine comes to 85 so the same but I have a few different numbers. A few things are different for me. I think the healthcare system is EXCELLENT. I'm not sure what experience you've had but I've had several things but I wanted to expand about the healthcare and why I rate it as a 10. I'll point out below.
Healthcare experiences:
1) I had 2 children born in Buenos Aires. The first at Sanatoria de La Trinidad in Palermo Chico and the other was born at Sanatorio los Arcos in Palermo Hollywood. We also had a child born in San Diego and I can tell you the experience was MUCH better in Buenos Aires. From the clinical care, to the medical facilities, to the staff. In the USA it's a revolving door and they really are horrible. You're just a #'d patient in a database. NOT a person. In Argentina you're a real person.
2) I suffer from really bad migraines. I have all my life. In the USA they would never want to do any studies without first going to the gatekeeper (primary care physician). They won't do any expensive stuff without trying and trying and trying. Well, my first migraine in Buenos Aires I was on the OSDE 510 plan. I'm not sure if they still have that plan. But I was paying next to nothing to cover me and my family. I complained and within 24 hours they had me doing an MRI! You would NEVER see that in the USA.
* I do want to qualify this and say that my office manager at the time, Mariela, her father was the Director of Sanatoria de La Trinidad. That probably didn't hurt but I honestly believed I'd still get the same care even if she didn't make a phone call to her dad. But I will admit, that when we had a baby, they actually kicked someone out of the VIP room that we got for my wife and I that had a sofa bed. There was literally someone in it that was recovering from I'm not sure and they moved them to another room so we could take the room after we were born. I realize THAT was a result of my office manager's father making a phone call. We got the VIP treatment all the way when we had our first baby.
And also the guy was a very prominent guy. Cristina Kirchner was the President of Argentina at the time and she asked my office manager's dad to be the Secretary of Health for Argentina but he turned it down as he was making too much money running the private hospital. (smart man).
3) Our kids were very healthy but when we had to take them to the pediatrician for when they got sick, it was nothing short of extraordinary how wonderful the doctors are. They ALL gave us their personal Cellphone # to call them with ANYTHING we needed. I don't think that was special to us. They really do care in Argentina vs. the USA where the healthcare system is broken. I doubt you will EVER see a doctor giving you their personal cellphone # in the USA. That would be their worst nightmare.
4) When I started suffering with my extreme pain for my small fiber nerve damage and burning in my feet. I couldn't find anyone good to deal with my pain. People were charging $300 US per hour and they wouldn't take insurance. And keep in mind I have the best coverage in the USA and paying $2,700 US dollar per month for coverage to cover my, my wife and my 3 kids. That's obscene in and of itself. In Argentina the same coverage would cost about $500 US.
My therapist - Susana Olañeta -
https://bacounseling.com.ar only charges $25 US per session and is amazing!! I recommended friends from the USA that were previously paying $300 per session and they said it was much better.
5) My mother in law lived in Buenos Aires for 15 years and she has had heart issues. She is on the free healthcare there and gets treated by wonderful doctors. Sometimes I pay to have her go to specialists for various things but most cnosultations are dirt cheap mostly under $40 US. Do you want to know what I spent in the USA one time when she had an epidode? THOUSANDS of dollars.
Healthcare in Argentina is 10 out of 10.