The Public system in Argentina is something that is great and a source of national pride but also has many challenges. All of the problems the public system faces can be, for the most part, fixed with more money. Obviously! But solving the problem of increased health in Argentina is more deeply rooted in the sort of battle between primary care and hospital care

Argentina should push for and use more of its resources on primary care. Like a doctors office where you go to get diagnosed before it become emergency room worthy. In essence primary care is the preemptive care needed to not flood hospitals with people. People who need checkups, vaccines, or could have gotten healthy thanks to a doctors visit. Argentina does not have a very strong primary care healthcare system. So, a switched of resources should be made to the primary care aspect of healthcare away from the hospitals.

This being said, those who operate hospitals fundings and resources need more fundings and more resources to make sure the hospital functions as best it can. They run the hospital with limited funding so taking that away to start primary care seems impossible as you would be leaving the hospitals severely lacking (more than they already are). There becomes the challenge between needing funding to invest in primary care and needing that funding to operate the hospitals hence the this vs that dynamic.

Noah Hillis