Abstract

BALLESTEROS, Matías Salvador. Impact caused by the transformations in the labor market and in social security upon the health insurance system for the people residing in urban areas in Argentina between the years 2003 and 2010. Trab. soc. [online]. 2016, n.26, pp.63-81. ISSN 1514-6871.

Argentina´s Healthcare System provides its citizens with three different types of Healthcare Insurances (Public Social, Social Security and Private). Each insurance provides differential coverage and this may affect the chances of the people to receive proper access to the Healthcare Service. In this article, we analyze the consequences that have arisen from the affiliation to the different types of Care Insurance and the changes that took place between the years 2003 and 2010 in the labor market, the social security system and in the regulatory framework of mono taxpayers. We have based our analysis in the results of the Encuesta Permanente de Hogares (EPH) of the years 2003 and 2010 and in the results taken from the Encuesta de Utilización y Gastos en Servicios de Salud (EUGSS) for the years 2005 and 2010. The results of the analysis show that these changes have had a major impact and have considerably increased the number of affiliates particularly to the Social Security Care Service. However, we also point out the process limitations to provide to a high number of people with an alternative care system to the Universal Healthcare Insurance provided by the Public Care Service. As a result we observe that a big number of the new Social Security System taxpayers were already affiliated due to the switch of Healthcare Service carried out by another family member.

Keywords : Healthcare sistem; Healthcare insurance; Labor market; Social security.

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