APRIL 14, 2025—This Tuesday, May 13, 2025, marked the 54th anniversary of the creation of PAMI, the largest social insurance company in Latin America, for retirees in Argentina. This new anniversary highlights once again the extremely serious situation faced by millions of retired workers. In addition to their poverty-stricken benefits, there is a social insurance company that, far from providing the necessary and urgent responses demanded by its beneficiaries, has become a bureaucratic machine that prevents rapid and effective access to health services.
For decades, PAMI has been under intervention, rendering it no longer the public agency in whose direction and administration workers should participate. Quite the contrary, it is run by officials of the current government. As if that weren’t enough, several cases have been reported in different parts of the country recently, evidencing the political misuse of PAMI and the use of its resources to settle internal disputes. The concern or obligation of these bureaucrats, paid with members’ money, to address their pressing needs is far from obvious.
For this reason, on the occasion of the new anniversary of the creation of PAMI, we, the National Coordinating Board of Retiree and Pensioner Organizations, demand:
– The immediate implementation of all benefits without restrictions;
– Establish free access to all medications, including those recently classified as over-the-counter for the benefit of pharmaceutical companies and to the detriment of workers;
– Stop the intervention! Normalize PAMI NOW! Active and retired workers must participate in its management and administration.
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