After 7 hospital visits and more than 7 lectures from highly distinguished members of the Argentinian healthcare industry we have officially finished our last site visit with a tour of private hospital Swiss Medical. We started our morning with a lecture from the former minister of health of the providence of Salta. After our lecture…

Today was very focused on the private healthcare sector in Argentina which includes both traditional insurance companies and prepaid plans that are negotiated with hospital networks. In the morning, we had a lecture with Dr. Florencia Ledesma who works for MEDIFE which is a large insurance provider/ executive union in Argentina. In the afternoon we…

Today we toured the neighborhood of Residio and the Recoleta cemetery. We had the morning free, so I walked around the city for a little bit and got some lunch. Today was election day in the province of Buenos Aires so it was cool to see the city against the backdrop of such an important…

As the title of my post today reveals today was mostly about Eva “Evita” Peron and her work in Argentina before and during the presidency of Juan Peron. We started today with a work/review session where we discussed what we have learned so far on the trip and worked on our presentations for this coming…

Today was split into two parts. Firstly in the morning we meet with the health Minister of CABA (Ciudad Autonoma De Buenos Aires) Dr. Daniel Ferrante, who discussed the issues that come with administering health in the public sector. We then met with the director of the shop workers union, Dr. Gabriel Leverstein who discussed…

Today was split into two very distinct parts. In the morning, we had a tango lesson and learned more about the culture of Buenos Aires. Then, in the afternoon we visited a public university and hospital in the neighborhood of La Matanza and discussed the role of federalism in the Argentine healthcare system. Like the…