2023-11-28 00:24:16
Javier Milei, Sandra Pettovello and Eduardo Filgueira Lima, in the efforts to formalize the structure of Health and the future Ministry of Human Capital
The future Ministry of Human Capital is a hot ember for Javier Milei even before his presidential inauguration. This new structure, where there will be four key secretariats such as Health, Education, Labor and Social Development, will be led by Sandra Pettovello and in the last hours she was involved in versions about a crisis that triggered the departure of Eduardo Filgueira Lima, the reference of La Libertad He is making progress on Health issues, which seemed like a candidate to pilot the area.
Although there was no confirmation that Filgueira Lima was going to be responsible for Health, among businessmen in the sector they took it as a fact and even, as Infobae revealed, he is credited with having been behind the advance of the organization chart of the future Secretariat during a health day organized by AmCham in Mendoza, with participants from the public and private spheres.
At that meeting, during the intervention of Rubén Torres, head of the Institute of Politics, Economics and Management in Health (IPEGSA), a film with data presented as “an exercise” was shown to the audience, although it was understood that they had arisen from Filgueira himself. Lime. This information, which circulated quickly, worried the union leadership: the future official structure provided for the elimination of the Superintendency of Health Services (SSS), an autonomous entity that manages the funds for social works and whose control is a permanent aspiration. of Peronist unionism.
The film that was exhibited in Mendoza about the possible structure of the Ministry of Health
The libertarians, as it turned out, would plan to divide the SSS into two new and lower-category structures: the National Directorate of Health Insurance and the National Directorate of Exceptional Medicines. The latter would absorb control of the Solidarity Redistribution Fund (FSD), the heart of the social works system, which is nourished by the contribution of workers and employer contributions to finance the reimbursements of highly complex benefits and medications.
The only thing that reassured the unionists is that those who appeared on the film as candidates to take charge of the social works funds are old acquaintances such as José Pedro Bustos, considered close to the controversial Héctor Capaccioli, involved in the cause of the “mafia of the medications” and friend of Alberto Fernández, and David Aruachán, current manager of the SSS and CGT candidate since 2019 to pilot that organization so coveted by unionism.
After Infobae published the note with that information, last Saturday, Pettovello called Filgueira Lima to reproach him for letting that data be revealed and argued in strong terms with the libertarian Health leader, who at that moment decided to step aside. .
The governor of Mendoza, Rodolfo Suárez, with Health officials and businessmen who participated in a conference organized by AmCham
Sources from the Ministry of Human Capital assured Infobae that Filgueira Lima was indeed “part of the Health team” (of La Libertad Avanza), but “he was never confirmed” as secretary of the area because he himself had warned Pettovello that “he did not want to “no position.”
The libertarian sources clarified that for this reason there was no crisis in the structure of the Human Capital portfolio and that it has not yet been defined who will be in charge of Health.
Away from Filgueira Lima, other names are circulating to lead the new Secretariat: some are the former Minister of Health of the province of Buenos Aires Claudio Zin, the pediatrician and infectious disease specialist Roberto Debbag and the pediatrician Carlos Kambourian, who was part of Patricia Bullrich’s technical teams.
Sandra Pettovello, in the middle of meetings at the Hotel Libertador, Javier Milei’s bunker (Photo Maximiliano Luna)
Filgueira Lima is a doctor who served as Secretary of Health of the Peronist government of La Pampa in 1993 and in 2002 and this last year he was appointed Undersecretary of Health of the Nation during the government of Eduardo Duhalde. He came to the ranks of Milei because of his ultraliberal ideas.
Last August he became known because in journalistic statements he targeted the public hospital: he stated that those treated there are “captive people” and assured that in the state health system “there are no incentives to improve: three work and two scratch.” .
But when Milei began to get closer to the union leader Luis Barrionuevo, he not only stopped making statements in the media: during the electoral campaign he was absent from three public debates that were held with health representatives of the main presidential candidates, organized by the Association of Doctors of Private Activity (AMAP), AmCham and the Chamber of Deputies.
Luis Barrionuevo’s approach to Javier Milei caused a shift in the harder stance of libertarians towards the unions
Filgueira Lima missed all three matches despite having announced his presence and left health experts Enrique Chiantore, from Together for Change, and Pablo Yedlin, from Unión por la Patria, alone. In political circles they attributed it to an alleged request by Milei to lower his exposure as much as possible due to the agreement he had reached with Barrionuevo, which represented a suggestive turn in the harsh position of the leader of La Libertad Avanza against the unions.
In the platform of the libertarian party, for example, the following proposal appears: “End the management of social works by unions, which constitutes an unfounded anomaly, which translates into inefficiency, corruption and low quality of service” . After the agreement with Barrionuevo, neither Milei nor Filgueira Lima publicly mentioned this point, which was part of the libertarian commitments. Will it have regained validity now?
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