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If we take a look at the health service in Chile, we can find highlights but also let downs. For example; we are able to get many of the new medicines that are created, but on the other hand, it can be really expensive. Because new treatments appear every day, more people are able to treat their health issues and illnesses that in past years didn’t have a way to be healed. Is for this reason that people can live longer and happier, now that they have a chance to treat their health. But not all can be good, on the other side, new medicine treatments are everything but cheap. Yeah, people live longer and have much better life quality, but live having to pay lifetime debts. In consequence some people decide not to take these treatments, because they can’t pay or don’t want to get into debts,  leaving them to live with health problems. In conclusion, medicine can save lives and give people the opportunity to live healthy. However, having this healthy life can be really expensive, resul...

When I think about my relation with politics and how it has changed throughout my life, the first thing that comes to my mind is how I never showed interest in anything that had to do with politics, I remember thinking that politics were boring and just about people fighting, and going crazy to defend their beliefs. That was until I turned fifteen, and I began to understand what politics means, and why it is so important in our country and the world. This happened because as a queer person from a middle-lower class, I found myself obligated to understand how the world works and how everything that happens affects my life. That’s why today I participate in politics by trying to educate people, so that everyone like me can get visibility and be respect.  To sum up; I was ignorant about politics until I realized that to change the world I needed to understand and be part of politics.