A great controversy was unleashed in the last hours on social networks after a Yankee tourist, visiting Argentina, He published a video in which he tells in amazement that a check-up was carried out and a vaccine was applied in a public hospital without paying a single peso.
The young man – about 20 years old – recounted live his visit to Hospital Fernández of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, where they performed a blood draw and they gave him a dose of the tetanus shotprocedures that the American assured that in their country of origin they would cost between 300 and 400 dollars for a person who -as he himself stated- does not have health insurance.
“I’m going to tell you how to get free health benefits as an American. Today is better than Christmas”I boast in a tone between incredulous and sarcastic, while the façade of the well-known Buenos Aires hospital is seen in the background, for which Mirtha Legrand She usually raises funds for charitable actions in her role as sponsor of the institution, either for the purchase of supplies that are in short supply or for the maintenance of the building.
“To be honest, I didn’t know what was going to happen. I also can’t believe it’s actually free. Now I am in Argentina, where the country provides free healthcare to all tourists and all foreigners. I’m going to put that to the test: if they offer something for free outside of the United States, I’m going to get it,” he said as he was admitted to the hospital.
“Since I don’t have health insurance in the United States, this check-up and this vaccine would cost me at least 300 or 400 dollars. This is a successful day. I’m getting out of the hospital and I haven’t paid a dollar yet. I don’t know what’s happening,” he said in astonishment. “Now the most important question: am I going to survive the free healthcare system?”
After 24 hours, the tourist updated his status: “I think I’m going to live.”
Public health and education at the center of the debate
Las free benefits for foreigners in hospitals and public universities in Argentina they are questioned cyclically by a part of the electorate and also by political forces, which in this context close to the elections is once again relevant.
Just 10 days ago, the presidential candidate of Together for Change, Patricia Bullrichunleashed another great controversy by ensuring that only 12 percent of the population has access to higher education and that “Almost half of the enrollment is foreign students.”
“Argentina is the country with the most public universities in Latin America, it has 56 public universities and as many or more private ones, however Those universities today are empty of students, we have almost half of the enrollment of foreign students who come and take the chances that Argentina gives and the Argentines are left in a cemetery in the secondary school because education has been destroyed ”, said when participating in the XVI Atlantic Forum “Iberoamerica: Democracy and Liberty” of the International Foundation for Freedom.
2023-07-11 21:18:00
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