On our last education day we learned about the private payers sector and Ministries of Health sector of the Argentina Health System. We learned about some of the roles of being a director in the MOH and how it is different from working from a provincial standpoint. If you hold a Director National position, you are more likely to be a part of making decisions, planning, and creating a budget to distribute to the provinces. The provinces role is to recieve the resources from the ministries and to then execute the plan. Something shocking I learned from from Dr. Fariña was about the corruption within the unions and political corruption within her line of work. This information helped me better understand the sector of Private Payers because it is heavily intertwined with the Obras Sociales/ Unions that she was describing. 

To touch on the private system, I think it is important to note how federalism impacts this sector. Federalism contributes greatly to the decentralized government and fragmented public health system. The gaps between power of the federal government and the provinces in Argentina create issues that make it harder to reach a certain level of care. It makes funding much more difficult to manage and receive and creates a larger gap in care between provinces.