Interesting point you raised fifs2! All those situations are very different from each other. In your case, your company signed you up and pays for the coverage, others have to find their individual solutions. I agree its business and I am very sure, that aside from all the treatment I will be recieving, which will cost a lot I am sure, I will be a great client, as I usually rarely visit to the doctor. Thus, I might be a very thankful client, who feels happy and stayes for a longer time with OSDE to express my thankfulness. I guess, that might not only apply to me, but to others as well, and a happy and thankful client, might refer a lot of new clients and result in a sort of win-win-situation for both sides. But, don't track me down on the exact calculation.
Leaving that aside. My lawyer did not give me any update on the case yet, but I will try to provide informations once I have more (please feel free to PM me, if needed).
My understanding is, that under this law you are covered. In my case the Martinez OSDE branch provided false information. The San Salvador de Jujuy OSDE branch did the job for me, when I popped in to pay my bills and they could not help overlooking my belly and changed me to the plan maternal without even telling me. I only got notice of it today, when I recieved a new OSDE card and wondered why... and figured, that it must have been that customer agent with whom I had payed my bills.
I have heard of woman, being very pregnant when signing in (only arrived in their 7th month in BA and had no chance to opt in before), gave birth at the hospital with no bills arriving yet. Maybe they bill it to the kid once it turns 18? ;-) That was OSDE. I know another case, not OSDE, where the family had to pay the bill, something like 5.000Pesos (last year).
Moreover, why not get together once with all our babys, toddlers whatever and chat over a cup of coffee ;-)
Notice: If you leave the country for more than 6month, OSDE freezes your plan/no pays/and just puts you back in track after your return in Argentine...important to those, who do not travel to USA, Canada, Israel or neighbouring countries.
) and now they are telling me, that they won't cover the birth, still all "the normal visits at the doctor", but not the birth as I joined in with OSDE way too late. Anyone out there, who might have been facing the same problem? Also, I keep hearing, that there as been a "change of law regarding that issue", but unable to find any precise information on that.
