Senor Villa, we do not have private hospitals in Chile anymore. I created a public healthcare system.
If we are to be a new free society, this 4th Republic, then we must give the citizens the freedom of choice. There is a public healthcare as a system of last resort, but it would be a detriment to our free citizens, who fought to end tyranny of the government, to not allow free enterprise in hospital care.
"I have noticed that no-one realises that due to the late Caudillo appointing myself as his deputy, I am actually President of this country. I wish merely to inform the administration of this oversight, since nobody seems to have noticed."
Sebastian Montenegro
Acting President of Chile
The people who fought against the regime, as in the actual foot-soldiers on the ground, were peasant's and communistas, most of which could never afford healthcare in their lives. If we are truly a popular revolution we must be for and by the people, we must make healthcare easier to get a hold of and more readily available to the workers and the farmers. The same goes for a proper education.If we are to be a new free society, this 4th Republic, then we must give the citizens the freedom of choice. There is a public healthcare as a system of last resort, but it would be a detriment to our free citizens, who fought to end tyranny of the government, to not allow free enterprise in hospital care.
I believe it is time the individual could extricate themselves from the gripping hands of Draconian Government, and reassert his/herself. We did not live over ten years of oppression just to enter a dictatorship of Democracy over that of Fascism.
So consider these words, Democracy means freedom, and we are a country built on this freedom. We are Chile para los chilenos.
We mustn't let men profit out of the people's lives. A rich businessman living in Santiago must have the same opportunities of surviving an accident than a poor farmer in Valparaiso. Healthcare is a right, not a service.
"Since I was a prominent member in the previous government, am I going to be put on trial? Does anyone care about me?"
Sebastian Montenegro
Acting President
I propose the following bill.
Emergency Economic Stability Act
I. This Act shall be in effect from the date passed until the inauguration of the elected after 1914 and the dissolution of the Provisional Government.
II. Due to the great harm suffered to our economy by the Civil War, the Provisional Governments policy shall be to subsidize industry, open closed factories and expand our industry in order to stabilize the economy and reduce unemployment.
Juan Rivera
Everyone seems to take the decision if whether I keep my life or not as a no-brainer. Not only they dispatch my life and my allies' as something that requires no thought, but they close themselves to the fact that I'm a priest who always fought for love and peace and that I did much good to the proletariat and the working classes...