Argentine health system faces perfect storm amid Milei's austerity

[MilHojas]

Argentine health system faces perfect storm amid Milei's austerity

Cardiologists say there's a "perfect storm" of dwindling supplies, doctors abandoning the profession, and rising health costs endangering the field that deals with the leading cause of death in Argentina.

 

[sergio]

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentine-heart-health-faces-perfect-storm-amid-mileis-austerity-2024-11-12/

 

[mageesa]

Is this how miles gets rid of public health? Not by announcing it, but by making it financially impossible? He's probably doing the same with universities. I remember asking a conservative Argentine years ago if candidates ever run on adapting an "American" privatized system and he said they'd never get elected.

 

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

very sad what is happening, particularly with the Garrahan.

 

[Ries]

I had a cab driver earlier this year, in his sixties at least, who worked two jobs- emergency room physician and cab driver. He said he could not survive on one, and the approximately 3 dollars an hour he made as a taxista was more than his hospital pay.

 

[Quilombo]

Is this how miles gets rid of public health? Not by announcing it, but by making it financially impossible? He's probably doing the same with universities. I remember asking a conservative Argentine years ago if candidates ever run on adapting an "American" privatized system and he said they'd never get elected.

Libertarian Lingchi - death by a thousand cuts

Milei is sold in the media as a man simply looking to tackle inflation, but he is a pure ideologue; if he can kill public education, healthcare, infrastructure, etc. at the same time he will because he earnestly believes these things should be handed over to billionaires at steep discounts, this is how you get the Superintendency of Health run by a rich former OSDE executive instead of a doctor that administered a public hospital.

Because I can't help myself, I read the comments on La Nación to get a pulse on the average elite Milei voter. It's important to remember these are people that pay for the paper as non-subscribers are unable to comment, and I'm always surprised how much they hate UBA for example, but don't want to cut it's funding, or complain about municipal hospitals, but rail against the decisions made by the OSDE executive minister, or really dislike how Milei's always on his knees for Uncle Sam when it comes to foreign policy.

I think this where his plans may backfire, if you can't keep your most militant supporters happy they'll never vote Peronist, but they'll simply stay home, and while they're probably not ready to admit it yet, just ask the Democrats behind closed doors how that turned out, pissing off the base leading up to an election.