Remember I had surgery the last days of August? A tale about State engineered privilege
I never actually told you about this but around October I had to go and pay for the surgery.
Now, my country has two healthcare modes: Private and State funded. It’s as evil as it sounds. As you can imagine Public health (state funded) sucks a lot, there’s deficit everywhere, a huge waiting list for those that need attention and so on and so on.
This is a completely programmed thing, don’t be mistaken. My country works on a subsidiary system, that makes it so that you’re “Guaranteed the access to” basic services, not “guaranteed rights”... that means that as long as there’s one provider for something then the state can say that things are going just awesome. And that means that what’s happened is that there’s a programmed deficiency in all public systems that has made it necessary to have private health, private education, private everything... and the lobby goes down so hard that our politicians are little but puppets of the companies that run the country really... and so it ends up happening that the lack of good infrastructure and good public services are necessary and a privilege that you need to have to have a decent life...
I’m privileged enough that I’ve been able to pay for private health this past year or so, mainly because I have a contract now and that wasn’t something I had before... and so, when I got the surgery I knew that I was going to end up paying a lot but at the same time it would never be as expensive as if I didn’t have anything.
The whole surgery was about 2.250 dollars (reminder here that the minimum wage in my country is about 385 dollars a month), and after the copays and everything what I ended up paying was 192 dollars. It set me off until now, I’m still kind of stretched out money wise, but it was payable (I knew I was getting surgery so I had a little money saved up which helped).
On the seat next to me whoever was there wasn’t so lucky.
There was a guy grabbing his head and asking the girl on the counter if there was a mistake, if that was before copays or what not. He had to pay around 3.300 dollars, and the girl over the counter was trying to explain to him that bill without discounts was around 7.000 dollars. On a 385 minimum wage. It was 18 times the minimum wage.
But what other choice you have?
You fall into debt, if you have the chance, or you end up in a waiting list that means you have to wait for years for a surgery or treatment that’s most often than not urgent.
So there’s only two choices... you either pay for private health or you die in a waiting list, as it has happended too often.
And so... we protest, and we march, and we fight. Until we change this whole thing from the roots.
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