On January 14, Andis, a dependency of the Ministry of Health, published in the Official Gazette of the Nation the Annex of Resolution 187/2025, which defines the new ‘medical criteria’ to measure the labor invalidity of those who seek to receive non -contributory pensions, A system that the conservative president has considered open to fraud and “political clientelism.”
However, what caused the most attention was its scale, which in its psychism section abandoned the criteria established in 2008 by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the UN, international treaty of which Argentina is part, to establish a scale based on the patient’s intellectual coefficient.
Thus, it establishes that the “idiot” is someone with a CI of 0-30 who “does not go through the glyós, does not read or write, does not know the money, does not control sphincters, does not meet their basic needs, cannot subsist alone”, while a “jerk” has a CI of between 30-50 and “does not read or write, meet your elementary needs, you can perform rudimentary tasks.”
Words that matter
In conversation with CommerceDr. Lupe Jara, a professor at the PUCP Faculty of Psychology, said that these terms have been disused for cultural and scientific reasons.
“As culture is something alive and in constant transformation, these words over time have begun to be considered pejorative towards people, making resume their use becomes a setback,” he said. “Meanwhile, on the side of science, advances in medicine have given rise to definitions more appropriate to conditions may suffer, whether mentally or emotional, so these words were abandoned.”
That is why the psychologist warned that “resume these words to designate a disability, a condition that a person cannot escape, undermines the construction of your self -esteem and even identity”
Dr. Jara also stressed that these terms are not only pejorative, but also in a certain way, referring to a vision of the intellect based mainly on the intellectual coefficient. “Today there is a more global and comprehensive intelligence concept, which looks like the ability of people to respond effectively to their environment“, considered.
Cultural battle
For Juan Negri, an Argentine political scientist of the Torcuato Di Tella University, the decree of Andis seems to be an act by the Milei government “to go against what they consider, described very generically, such as ‘wokismo’, a little defined concept that relates all the advances that progressivism has given in recent years and that includes what is considered as an exaggerated use of political correction”.
“I see it as a deliberate decision to give that cultural battle, as the government likes to say”, Considered the expert in conversation with this newspaper. “Although I do not rule out that there could also be some lack of management and inability of the paintings that are in charge of these issues, since in some areas the government is in obvious lack of trained personnel.”
A theory that has foot, since shortly after the news took strength, the National Disability Agency published a statement where it announced that it would modify resolution 187/2025, removing the pejorative terms, while director of the state entity, Diego Spagnuolo, announced by X that the people responsible for the error “They were already disconnected from Andis” It should be noted that the original document It was signed by Spagnuolo himself.
“This regulation included an annex with terms that historically have been used in psychiatric medicine to describe deep degrees of intellectual deficit, but which, at present, have been discontinued,” writes the new statement. Of course, they emphasize that this correction will not modify the scale or its evaluation criteria, demonstrating that although the language can change, the intention to adjust the coffers by the Milei government remains the same.
Despite the intensity of the controversy, Juan Negri doubted that the current situation Máme in great the approval of the president. “Although it shows great social insensitivity, it does not seem to me that this is a significant problem among all the open fronts that the government has, as the Supreme Court of Justice or the cryptocurrency scandal $ libra”He said. “It seems to me that it is an issue that the majority of the population is not interested in so much and the great mandate that this government has is the economic situation. If that resolves or is going – and for the moment the news has been good in that aspect – the popularity of Milei will not be significantly affected. ”
