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Weekly Report - 16 May 2024 (WR-24-19)
Boric rides to rescue of Pinochet private health scheme
It is a fair bet that Chile’s President Gabriel Boric would have blanched if he had been told upon taking office that just past the halfway point of his four-year term not only would he have failed in his intent to secure a new constitution to replace that drafted during the dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) but his government would also have propped up a legacy of Pinochet in the form of the private health insurance system, Isapres. And yet that is precisely what has happened.
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