Day two was packed with new knowledge at every corner. Especially the idea that Argentina’s health care is complex, just like the fictional character Frankenstein. Frankenstein was a novel written by Mary Shelly about a mad scientist who was able to bring a new creation to life through a scientific experiment. The new specimen was brought to life by a magical spark of electricity with different pieces of outdated body parts. Ultimately, the scientist rejected the outcome of the new creation because it was hideous and didn’t have the standard of what the scientist pictured in his mind.

The health care in South America, especially Argentina, compares to the ideals behind Frankenstein’s novel. It has many different sectors mangled together to make the system. Such as Frankenstein having many parts to make the new specimen alive. Though all the pieces are authentic to each of their own, the particular entity connected through policy overlaps or stitches regarding the new creation, such as Frankenstein. 

They have the public system, Obras socials’, private, and the national mystery of health, which oversees each section but can also be its own. The public system is about 35% of the population with integrated providers apart of it. This is only counting for the people whose only method of receiving health care is through this sector—compared to the people apart of the private sector who pay for the service through a plan. To avoid longer wait times that may occur at public hospitals. They also can receive care in the public and private sectors even though they are a part of the private sector. Through the factors of cultural standards of not taking who are private or public sectors groups when they walk in for care, no questions asked. They just provided services and asked questions later. Obras socials have limits conducted by the superintendency of health. The more we discuss, the more gaps appear.

Showing how complex and fragmented the health care system is relative to government, jurisdiction, legal, financial, and interest. Considering the lack of integration between the many healthcare subsectors in Argentina, implications are just like the case in the novel when creating a monster. For example, there are significant issues of inequality and inequity between different region’s types of coverage within poor provinces relating to the outcomes, showing the ignorance of social determinants and the burden of expenses that seem like a mere penny to most but lifetime savings to some in the rural areas of South America.