While the Government seeks to have the bill of Budget deepen the adjustment in health, repealing the emergency law on Disability, the labor reform project will also affect the health system. Among its different points, the reform establishes the contribution reduction paid by employers for social works.
The total contributions and contributions that are deducted from the gross salary for social work would go from 9% to 8%, it is 1% that at first glance may seem insignificant but These are billions of pesos that will not go into social or prepaid works or the Solidarity Redistribution Fund (FSR). What scope could the measure have?
Another attack on people with disabilities
He Solidarity Redistribution Fundis the source of resources to cover those medical care benefits provided for in the Nomenclator of Basic Benefits for People with Disabilities for which the emergency law established an increase.
In the same movement, the Government seeks to repeal the Disability emergency in complicity with sectors of radicalism and Peronism, and defund the fund with which the practices of said nomenclator are covered. The FSR is also intended to finance complex treatments y high cost medications. Taking as a basis what was allocated during August according to ARCA, we would be talking about a monthly cut greater than 16 billion pesos.
In 2024 Milei had already reduced the funds that went to the FSR, it represented 20% of the total contributions and contributions to social works, but it became 15%. If the situation is already critical today, with thousands of people with disabilities throughout the country who lose their access to care and benefits every day, the labor reform only promises to deepen that direction.
What will happen to social and prepaid works?
The scope of the labor reform is broader than it seems due to the complexity of the health system. Broadly speaking, with the decrease in employer contributions Social works would have 11% less monthly income. A decrease that also affects to those who make contributions to a prepaid. Bringing it down to more concrete numbers, if the reduction applied today for all employers we would be talking about a loss of at least 90 billion pesos per month for all registered workers taking August as reference.
Who will pay this difference? This is a measure that arises while the social works themselves implement all types of co-payment systems and create obstacles to not even comply with the Mandatory Medical Plan. Much less is it expected that prepaid companies, which waste no time in applying increases, will make up the difference in favor of users.
While large employers benefit from reductions in contributions, even the most basic benefits become more expensive The immediate consequence is the increase in the demands of the public system that comes from suffering its own emptying in the hands of Milei, Lugones and the governors. To give you an idea, in addition to proposing the repeal of the Disability emergency and funds for universities, the 2026 Budget in its item for Garrahan does not apply the increase that its workers achieved due to the pediatric emergency.
The lies of the reform
The Government, just as Cavallo said in the 90s, repeats that the reform will encourage more registered work. In that hypothetical world, the contributions that go down on one side could be compensated on the other, but there are plenty of experience what is it false. The reform will not generate more employment because it is an excuse to deepen job insecurity and attack the already very low incomes of the working class. A postcard that can already be seen in the annihilation of the industry with factory closures and layoffsand the promotion of an extractivist economic model of plundering the country’s natural commons that promises to generate very few new jobs for a limited period of time.
Clearly, the labor reform is done tailored to big businessmen, the IMF and Trump, not only to remove labor rights and limit the actions of union organizations, it also delves into the health model as a business for those who can pay for it. For that very reason it is necessary to defeat her in the streets along with the entire package of Government laws, with a plan of struggle and demanding that the union centers call for a general strike as the first step to overthrow the adjustment plan.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
