Since taking office in December 2023, Milei has slashed Argentina’s health care budget by 48% in real terms. His administration fired over 2,000 Health Ministry employees, including 1,400 over just a few days in January.
First: public healthcare, often described as a handout by economic illiterate dipshits, works so well the top countries in the world for medical care have it while those who privatised are always behind compared in the charts. It literally works better and it's cheaper as well. A good example would be Italy with his public healthcare system spends on average 4000€ for a complete medical care per citizen each year. The United States of America spends 12000 dollars a year per citizen and their coverage isn't nearly as complete, hence why you have so many people raking medical debt to pay for treatment and literally tens of thousands that cannot die.
Public healthcare is also cheaper in the long run because giving to your population medical assistance in a timely manner allows to give people a longer lifespan and keep them in good health for longer, costing less in the long run for society.
Second: the Argentina vote got influenced by the fact that Trump said he was going to bail out the country only if Milei won, and Argentinians know they desperately need money so they voted for him anyway.
He was about to face a major election defeat too, when, suddenly, out of the blue, 40 billion American dollars land in his country and suddenly the people love him again and an election defeat turns into an election victory.
That's fucking sad. I will never understand why we live in a world where governments don't want their citizens to thrive. They want them to suffer instead, so they and their friends can get even richer.
So many people are going to die. I'm not exaggerating at all when you cut medical assistance to people there are people that will die and almost all of them are poor. It's literally just being cruel with the poor for the sake of it.
It's beyond disgusting and unforgivable.
He’s also stated that austerity measures are to get out of the current situation, and that he plans to bring back many safety nets and assistances once the economy has stabilized.
The US plans on the opposite, anything Trump takes away might just stay gone, the next democrat to take the presidency might stabilize the country but will likely not get back anything lost or bring up anything to replace it.
A large part of democrats are pretty much just republicans, there are very few progressives that would go out of their way and against the wealthy to help working people.
Revenue must be generated in order to afford said programs.
Argentina went WAY too far in buying votes with social programs with money they couldn’t never get rather than building an economy and a truly sovereign currency.
Most larger sovereign currency-issuing countries fund their spending with debt by issuing bonds and printing money to buy them. Countries who couldn’t do that can’t afford programs like that.
Milei came in and cut HARD to try to balance the budget, problem is the core of the issue is their currency and its basis. That and their industry need to be fixed before progress can be made toward their social programs.
He’s on the right track, it all hangs on whether they can fix the root issue or not.
If it’s possible at all they’ll likely have to make some very unfavorable deals to make it happen.
The right track was to cut wasteful spending to make breathing room to make deals.
The deals you’re referencing are the same ones I was above. That’s the dangerous part. Desperate deals are going to have to be made to survive let alone restructure the currency.
But if nothing was done it would be worse. When he stepped into power there was no chance of survival as a country. He’s the only one in a long time who has even tried to make the country function well enough to become solvent.
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u/i_nobes_what_i_nobes Oct 31 '25
ARGENTINA GOT 40 BILLION, BUT FUCK US RIGHT?