I have written a lot about
Costa Rica’s governmental health insurance plan.
am costa rica The other day I was at a meeting where the speaker, Leonardo Garnier, a professor of Economics and sometime columnist, gave us a history and possible future of the institution known as the Caja.
The Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social was not created full-blown from the onset. Before 1940, there was little public-sponsored social welfare in
Costa Rica. It was President Rafael Ángel Calderón (1940-44), a paternalistic representative of the elite of
Costa Rica who first enacted a social security program that would insure the workers of the banana and coffee industries in the Central Valley. That was approximately 10 per cent of the population. This act stunned his supporters, but social security survived the 1948 Civil War.
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