Well i think i had read enough, first of all i went to a public school, did any of you big mouth went to one in argentina? i don't think so, please just shout your mouth close if you don't know what you are talking about. There are impressive public schools as well as terrible ones, depend a lot from the neighborhood, city, etc. Even in the average public school is not that the system is necessarily bad. The biggest problem is that depending on where you are taking your education the composition of the students on the school does make a difference, the average depend mostly from the student situation, if he is from a poor family that just drop him there without any expectations he will most likely perform poorly, while kids from middle class families perform much better. The bigger problem that the public school are facing right now in Argentina is the migration from high and middle class students to private schools or to specialized public schools, this migration cause that more and more student with social problems that where the ones that perform poorly stays in the public making that the level of it get lower, even then the people that goes to the school and studies will perform well in the university. And the original reason of why this migration started is the 2001 crisis, when the teachers start striking for better salaries around there where months without class almost every year that made most of the people including my father to sent their children's to private institutions. I didn't fell any difference in the level between one and the other neither most of my friends from other middle or high class families that followed the same patch, but we had class and the kids in the other school didn't and that made a big difference. I did my kindergarten, primary school and 3 of the 5 years of my secondary school in the public school and seen people that talk about it without having even step a foot in one of them just make me get mad. Of course the public school level has going south since 2004 that was the year i finish the secondary but this has mostly happen for the migration process, still there are a lot of kids that comes from the public school that perform really well, and there are public schools that are really good as well.
Now passing to public health, i used the service a couple of times lately specially when i had some problem and i was uninsured, the true is that the public health system is not bad, mostly people that say so is people that has never used it (i will not be and hypocrite i was one of the persons that always say bad things about it before i actually used it), sometimes i prefer it over the private ones, granted the infrastructure (buildings) in this hospitals are somehow rundown, but they have all the machines and they don't tell you come back in a couple of months, and there are top notch medics in all the fields i went to the hospital Italiano 2 weeks ago and the medic there when he saw that i was uninsured and paying in cash told me to go to the public hospital and ask a turn with him there as he worked half turn in the Italian hospital and half turn in the public hospital fernandez so i don't have to pay for all the expensive studies i'm currently doing. First time i used the public hospital was on an emergency, i have to wait for 1 hour as it wasn't really serious i was just feeling dizzy on my head, they did all the studies on the place including a tomografia computada that in a private hospital would take forever to get a turn. Now the bad things about public hospitals are that to get turns for things that are not urgency, you have to go in person to the hospital a Monday and do a huge queue to finally get your turn for a programmed visit at least here in capital, in the interior of the country is quite easy to get a turn, here in the high complexities centers there are always a lot of people looking for a turn so is not all pink color. The best friend from my father just got a very complex hearth operation in a public hospital not because he didn't has the money to pay for a private one, but because the best medic on the field was in a public hospital.
I had to print my personal experiences with public school and hospitals to make some justice to it, because i see here a lot of talking from people that has no clue about anything of what they are saying, i know is normal to just repeat what some locals that haven't use the public system in their life say about it, i did as well in the past because i was one of this big mouth guys that never has to use the public hospitals in his life and pay the taxes every month to sustain it. Is not perfect for sure but it does his job quite decently and in many areas even surpass the private hospital. In any case is totally doable to pay everything in cash in this country if you want to use a private hospital is not ridiculously expensive, sometimes unless you have some problem that requires you to constantly go to the hospital or if you are old enought to require constant care then the medic plans make total sense but if not you can do it on cash and is not like the us where they will kill you with the price.
Sorry for the long text, i was not even thinking on writing all this. And sorry if my English is not so good anymore my German has really made my English become poorer.
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