Javier Milei, as
can be deduced from what he himself types in his hyperactive account on the social
network
The President denounced this circumstance this Thursday to combat the "imbecile purists" who want to
measure their "liberalism in blood
. "
Written like this, it seems like a slap in some fight in a libertarian forum intended to improve his position in an internal situation that only Milei and a handful of his oldest followers should know about. But it is possible to broaden the focus and consider this novelty with a more comprehensive perspective.
The restrictions of real life, always more odious than the landscapes drawn by theoretical speculation - and especially bad theory - have been giving the Government bad news for several days. The scandal over increases in
private medicine fees
is one of those.
After years of regulations, the owners of the prepaid companies understood that
the deregulation of their market
had exactly the meaning that the Casa Rosada had given it: they could charge the fees they wanted until the market made them change their mind. Deregulation has, throughout Milei's speech, very deep theoretical roots: the President has been proposing it since he appeared on television for the first time. The proposal to set fire to the Central Bank, or even to open the possibility of selling organs on the market, were some of her best-known deregulatory ideas.
But, with little respect for that kind of hypothetical game, the flesh-and-blood entrepreneurs of prepaid medicine decided to act motivated by
real-life calculations, ambitions, and urgencies
. Their clients, who also must face the inclemencies of that same reality every day, were spectators and forced protagonists of that storm of increases.
With all this reality in sight, the President reacted as politicians react and listened to the members of his team who warned him that
the middle class is no longer there to continue transferring resources
that always come from the same wallets.
This Thursday, the senators imposed their own restrictions and
voted on an increase in diets
. There were no differences between the ruling party and the opposition. La Libertad Avanza endorsed the vote by show of hands - the mechanism that legislative bodies use when they do not want to leave traces of what they vote for - and its senators did not make explicit their negative vote for the increase, which is the mechanism that must be implemented in this class of voting.
There was more news for this reality restrictions newsletter. The Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Milei, also considered that her area really needed more resources and awarded them. The directors of YPF thought the same and that is why their salaries are going to be increased well above inflation. They also used the argument of the owners of the prepaid companies and said that their profits are lower than those of executives with equivalent positions in the market. Once again, the reality that is best understood: that of money.