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Weekly Report - 19 May 2011 (WR-11-20)
ARGENTINA: State controls imposed on private healthcare
It took three years to make it through congress but this week
President Cristina Fernández promulgated a law that will have a major impact on
the healthcare sector in Argentina. Fernández explained the new law on radio and
television from the Casa Rosada, ironically while acting on the advice of her
doctors not to leave the country because of health concerns. She said it was a
"transcendental step" towards regulating for the first time the activity of
providers of private health insurance, which is held by some 4.5m Argentines
(11% of the population). The majority of Argentines, however, receive health
insurance through their trade unions, and it is here that oversight needs to be
expanded after a murky ‘medicine mafia' scandal.
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