2: Healthcare System

Hello! Here´s my second blog, and this one it´s gonna talk about the Healthcare System. In specific, I chose the topic: "What do you think of the health service in our country?", because it is interesting for me, and I think we can talk a lot about this theme in a country like Chile.

When we think in Chile (specially at present) we think in the protest of the Chilean people who ask, among many things, quality health. And why they ask that? Well, according to the site "radio.uchile.cl", three of four people thinks that the quality of the attention is bad on the public system. This is because a lot of people don´t have the money to pay a private hospital or a private attention with an specialist, so they need to go to the public system. Also, an excess of money of the Government of Chile go to things that aren´t so important (in comparation of the health of the people), like police, military, etc.

I think like most people that health in Chile is very bad, and that to access good care you need to pay too much money, something that is very unfair and to which few people can access. Things like increase the estimate of the country (as the finance minister did in the last budget) can improve this situation.

Reference: Encuesta revela mala calidad en la atención de salud pública. Helmuth Huerta. https://radio.uchile.cl/2013/05/30/encuesta-revela-mala-calidad-en-la-atencion-de-salud-publica/

Gobierno presenta presupuesto de Salud por más de 9 mil millones de pesos. Ministerio de Salud de Chile. https://www.minsal.cl/gobierno-presenta-presupuesto-de-salud-por-mas-de-9-mil-millones-de-pesos/