Today we visited a wide variety of hospitals and clinics within the city of Buenos Aires. First, we visited the Mater Dei hospital. Mater Dei, a private hospital, has exceptional care and puts patient experience at an absolute priority. In this private hospital, unlike other public hospitals, allow new mothers to stay in the hospital for over 3 days. In the public system, this is a foreign concept. Since, most Argentinians use the public system, there is a need to turnover beds for the next patient. The exclusivity of private care allows for special treatment to insured patients. 

Next, we visited Hospital Jose Fernandez. Due to a law being put in place in the city of Buenos Aires, it is mandatory to provide care to anyone that attends the hospital. People from all neighborhoods come to this hospital to receive key care. Even non Argentinians can come to the hospital to receive car for absolutely free. Due to this, the hospital has over 400 beds and over a thousand staff members to support the hospital. While it may be more accessible, the conditions in the public hospital are far worse. However, they provide all of the specialty medicine that may be needed while private hospitals often do not. 

Finally, we visited a clinic called Clinica Bazterrica in Buenos Aires owned by the insurance company OMINT. OMINT is a private insurance company that counts for over 50% of the visitors to this clinic.  This clinic provides luxury care and VIP rooms that can be accessed by purchasing certain plans from the insurance company. In public hospitals, the level of luxury in each room is the same. However, in private clinics, patients have the ability to upgrade their care to something even better than expected.