Is the Milei "Transformation" Failing Already?

[ArgentinaVet]

These are still very early days to be able to judge whether Milei is going to succeed or not. If Milei can stay in office long enough to have beaten inflation and achieved monetary stability (whether through dollarization or otherwise) he will be successful. The measures he is taking to achieve those aims (fiscal discipline, massively cutting corruption/waste/ largesse) are absolutely essential.

Milei is using his constant production of content on social media and TV appearances to absolutely dominate the narrative and embarrass/ humiliate the "Casta politica" (essentially the Deep State) into accepting his reforms by exposing all the dark and dirty secrets of the wealth plunder that has defined Argentine politics. His tactics are unorthodox and confrontational but this is what 56% of the electorate chose to attempt to heal a very, very sick cancer patient(the Argentine economic and political system).

Argentina has a serious cancer that has a 80-90% cure rate if radical surgery is performed and Chemotherapy and radiation treatments are administered. The treatment is going to last a year or two and it will involve terrible suffering but the prognosis is good is the patient can ride it out.

 

[Musicman]

Salta to start charging foreigners for healthcare - Buenos Aires Herald

The provincial authorities said they'd made the decision to compensate for funding cuts by Argentina’s national government

buenosairesherald.com

More cost pressure for expats under the ongoing Milei changes........I wonder if they wll do this in Buenos Aires too?

And on another note Pope Francis said that the state is called upon to deliver social justice and that profits and the market are “false deities” Some truth in this

In veiled jab at Milei, Pope Francis says state's role is to provide social justice - Buenos Aires Herald

The Argentine president has repeatedly spoken out against the concept, calling it ‘unjust’

buenosairesherald.com

 

[sts7049]

You see too much to Viale.
Hard data.
With CFK if you paid taxes you had a lot of advantages. People who was angry were tax evaders.
Everything was cheaper than today, what are you talking about? Today is when people get poorer and poorer. How do you explain that I pay 400 usd per child for school????
Now you have 50% inflation in USD!!!!!!!

things were cheaper because they were artificially distorted

 

[mikic007]

things were cheaper because they were artificially distorted

Some, like electricity, absolutely. A lot of things, like food, in my opinion not. I understand that many here are comparing prices to USA, but even there plenty of stuff is cheaper. Now in Argentina most of merchandise is more expensive than in europe, while work is valued on 1/3. At least things produced in Argentina should be somewhat cheaper, but they are not.

We can blame former politics for all of this, but saying, that 4 rolls of shitty toilet paper of a price of 2 usd is correct price, is just silly. More accurately would be to say, that we are in transition, and prices are distorted. It's absurd, that appointment with specialist cost me the samr as 3 litres of local beer...

 

[FrankPintor]

Salta to start charging foreigners for healthcare - Buenos Aires Herald

The provincial authorities said they'd made the decision to compensate for funding cuts by Argentina’s national government

buenosairesherald.com

More cost pressure for expats under the ongoing Milei changes........I wonder if they wll do this in Buenos Aires too?

Already happening, I believe: https://www.infobae.com/politica/20...ca-a-los-portenos-en-los-hospitales-publicos/

 

[SinPulgas]

Already happening, I believe: https://www.infobae.com/politica/20...ca-a-los-portenos-en-los-hospitales-publicos/

Come on, Frank. I know that you know how to read.

 

[FrankPintor]

Come on, Frank. I know that you know how to read.

I hope you do too: "Jorge Macri reported that they are working on a new diagnosis and care system that prioritizes Buenos Aires residents in public hospitals". and "The head of Government clarified that there will be no changes in the care of people who are at risk of life or are in an emergency situation" so non-CABA residents won't actually be left to die, which is very media-aware but not exactly reassuring.

Yes, I read the whole article, there are no easy solutions here (do remember that PBA treated many CABA patients on holidays during the pandemic without complaint, and has been vaccinating CABA residents for years without any restrictions). It does go both ways (though the whingeing comes from only one side, guess which?). And overloading hospitals in CABA is anything but ideal, but that's where the resources have been historically concentrated. If anything, it points up the stupidity of a carve-out of a reliably conservative-voting CABA, stripped artificially of its surrounding suburban areas, most of which vote the other way. Buenos Aires doesn't just exist inside the General Paz ring road, you know. But that's another topic, I think.

 

[SinPulgas]

I hope you do too: "Jorge Macri reported that they are working on a new diagnosis and care system that prioritizes Buenos Aires residents in public hospitals". and "The head of Government clarified that there will be no changes in the care of people who are at risk of life or are in an emergency situation" so non-CABA residents won't actually be left to die, which is very media-aware but not exactly reassuring.

Yes, I read the whole article, there are no easy solutions here (do remember that PBA treated many CABA patients on holidays during the pandemic without complaint, and has been vaccinating CABA residents for years without any restrictions). It does go both ways (though the whingeing comes from only one side, guess which?). And overloading hospitals in CABA is anything but ideal, but that's where the resources have been historically concentrated. If anything, it points up the stupidity of a carve-out of a reliably conservative-voting CABA, stripped artificially of its surrounding suburban areas, most of which vote the other way. Buenos Aires doesn't just exist inside the General Paz ring road, you know. But that's another topic, I think.

Yes, I can read. That's why I posted. You were responding to a post about charging foreigners. What you posted has nothing to do with that.

(Really, I just need to stay out of these conversations. I guess I'll never learn. At least not completely.)

 

[FrankPintor]

Yes, I can read. That's why I posted. You were responding to a post about charging foreigners. What you posted has nothing to do with that.

(Really, I just need to stay out of these conversations. I guess I'll never learn. At least not completely.)

OK, now I know what you're on about I understand where you're coming from Salta's proposal, or decision is: "The charges will apply to foreign nationals with transitory or precarious residence, but those who are resident in Argentina and have a DNI will not be required to pay". I'd say (without much evidence, to be sure) that it doesn't apply to most expats.

CABA's proposal, or decision, is a bit more restrictive then, denying anything other than emergency care to non-residents of CABA.

I think my commentary is good, but let's not lose sleep over it. Maybe neither of us will learn. Someone's always wrong on the interwebs

 

[Musicman]

Argentines put US$2.3 billion into banks, signalling faith in Milei

If the trend continues, it would be good news for Argentina’s Central Bank, where a portion of savers’ dollar deposits count toward the foreign reserves needed to stabilise the peso.

www.batimes.com.ar

A good sign perhaps........