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Argentines reel from health care cutbacks as President Milei’s state overhaul mirrors Trump’s
- President Javier Milei took office in December 2023 and immediately implemented austerity reforms, including a 48% real cut in Argentina's health care budget.
- These measures followed Milei's campaign promise to shrink the state and involved firing over 2,000 Health Ministry employees and suspending the DADSE federal agency that paid for costly medications.
- The suspension of DADSE led to cancer patients losing access to treatment, hospitals running out of resources, HIV patients deprived of medication, and early cancer detection programs suspended amid rising measles and STI outbreaks.
- By late 2023, more than three hundred thousand individuals had enrolled to legally obtain medical cannabis through REPROCANN; however, new regulations have introduced additional administrative hurdles that may drive patients toward illicit cannabis markets and jeopardize established patient protections.
- Experts warn Milei's austerity is dismantling Argentina's once-advanced public health system, causing setbacks unseen in decades and threatening gains made through long-standing activist-driven health and cannabis reforms.
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President Javier Milei’s severe budget cuts to Argentina’s public health system have led to a decline in care, particularly affecting cancer patients, according to experts, government workers and advocates.
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Argentines reel from health care cutbacks as President Milei's state overhaul mirrors Trump's
Cancer patients say they’ve grown sicker since Argentina’s radical libertarian President Javier Milei took his chainsaw to the public health system.
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