Financing health services for pensioners in Argentina

A salutary tale

Bibliographic Data

ID12608484
AuthorsPeter Lloyd-Sherlock (0000-0002-1367-0703, University of East Anglia, corresponding author), Peter Lloyd‐sherlock
Year2003
Volume12
Issue1
Pages24-30
Publication date2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Social Welfare (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1369-6866 • E-ISSN: 1468-2397
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-2397.00008
OpenAlexW1911746595
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited14

The article examines the problems facing a programme to finance health care for pensioners in Argentina, known as PAMI. The programme is accumulating large deficits and many of its services are of doubtful quality. PAMI's problems and its resistance to reforms are put in the wider context of Argentina's liberalised health‐care system, neo‐liberal adjustment and flawed governance. The Argentine experience has relevance for other developing countries with weak state regulatory capacity, and points to the dangers of delegating health financing of older people to the private sector

Business · Context (archaeology · Corporate governance · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economics · Geography · Health care · Health care financing · Political science · Private finance initiative · Private sector · Relevance (law · State (computer science · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis · Global Health Care Issues · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Finance

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