The Healthcare System Disease

 

If there is something that has proven to be completely insufficient in Chile, THAT would be the health care system.

There are many things wrong with how healthcare is administered and I would like to touch on the subject while mentioning ways to change it.

A single health

It is no secret that Chile has two completely different healthcare systems. One is managed through Fonasa and the other through Isapre. This should be enough to discredit your administration, since you should not play with the possibilities of people's health care, since it is one of the most basic rights and thinking about it in detail is as horrible as thinking that there are people whose lives will have preference only because of the size of their wallet.

The existence of a single entity responsible for social security contributions in a single fund is vital, thus removing the Isapres from the administration of the mandatory 7%. This combined with an increase of 6% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for public health spending to cover the structural deficit and follow international recommendations. The World Health Organization (WHO) suggests allocating 6% of GDP.

I think that what we need most to start changing the system is a change of chip, to be able to accept and understand when something is wrong and that it is necessary to reformulate it.

But that is something that today the Chilean government does not represent very well.

Is voting important?

Hi there, if you want the short answer, yes, it is important.

But if you are not satisfied with empty answers I will ask you a question.

What are the reasons for not voting?

If you think like a large number of Chileans, a very clear answer could be because it is useless, although you vote, there are still the same empty promises and the same candidates of always. If less and less people vote, it is because of a clear feeling of impotence, abuse and abandonment by the political elite, and as far as I'm concerned it's real, and I understand perfectly well the reasoning of people who think that it makes no sense to even be interested in it. At the end of it all "we're going to work anyway."

But why does this happen? why a candidate is able to run a campaign based only on empty promises and succeed?

Well that's only possible because you don't vote.

When people do not vote, they allow the candidates to concentrate all their resources on the few people who actually vote. If it is not profitable for them to try to make innovative government programs, they are not going to do it, because they want to win elections and the most profitable way to do it these days is by making promises and meeting with people who you know do vote and mobilize their close ones to vote.

Let's hope that people became more aware of this after everything that has happened these last years in chile, because we can only make the politicians stop selling smoke and take the people seriously if it is the people who decide it, that they realize that we are no longer the same ingenuous people that they can fool as they usually do.

An informed citizenry will want to change what is not working, and probably will know what is not working, so if a politician wants to win an election with an informed citizenry he will have to prove that he can change what is not working and do things differently. 

So, Is voting important?

If you are tired of politic being a business, and that once and for all it works like a tool to make a difference, then fuck yes!