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.
I totally agree with you. Since along time I considered the Chilean health system to be just another way of social class discrimination. Our country always leaves the working class behind and takes advantage of it. The government should have changed the system many years ago, and you’re right when you say the system needs a change of chip. I really enjoyed read your blog. Regards!
ReplyDeleteit's true that the chilean health system is discriminatory. Dividing a right into two depending on your wallet is dividing us into classes, and inevitably makes one of them better than the other.
ReplyDeleteI feel that they polarized the population with these two systems, they kept them separate, far enough away that people who are seen in clinics do not know that people die in the waiting rooms of public hospitals.
ReplyDeleteWhen people stop dying because they're poor is when we will move to a much better health care system. Thank you for your opinion, I completely agree. Differences kill.
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