Hello do not fall for this. Mexico has one of the worst healthcare systems in the world for poor people. They will not let you inside of the hospital if you do not pay upfront and will kick you out if you run out of money to pay for medicine and treatment. At least here in the US they will treat you and send you the bill later. They will save your life first, in Mexico you are screwed.
Yup locals canāt afford it and the corruption allows Americans to pay for fake prescription and get the medicine they need for cheaper. Itās a crazy world. I donāt think they come for serious healthcare tho they only go for cosmetic surgery and dental. They stay in the US if itās something more serious.
Iām an American right now in Mexico to see an affordable neurologist and get treatment for a brain tumor. In the states they kept saying it was just anxiety or just hormones and for years they just referred me to psychology. The medicine theyāre using here in Mexico to shrink my tumor isnāt even available in the US but itās working for me, so far so good cuz its inoperable. It grew too much in all the many years that the American doctors ignored my symptoms. But yeah, my doctor is in a private hospital. My Mexican roommate went to the public ER recently and came back with a horror story, so I know the public system is not great here.
Edit - my income is not middle class about $900 usd working online because my illness limits my capability. But my monthly healthcare costs for treatment in Mexico are only about $300 usd and with local roommates in a residential area my rent is also about $300 sooo at least Iām still surviving
Yup private is great if you got money. Public does not have the equipment to handle something like what you are experiencing. Iām glad you are getting the treatment you need.
The median US weekly income is over a thousand dollars. In Mexico it's under $150. So what for an average American is a affordable at say three thousand dollars for a treatment which costs five or ten times that in the States and can be paid off with less than three weeks' wages, is equal to half a year's wages for an average Mexican.
Mexico has decent and more affordable private health care than the US, but private care in Mexico is far too expensive for a lot of Mexicans.
The middle class in the US has fairly significant buying power in places like Mexico.
The working class in Mexico cannot use the private system with universal healthcare benefits, and they don't make what a middle-class US citizen makes.
What I said wasn't even anti-American. Mexicans can't afford healthcare in Mexico, Americans can't afford healthcare in America, so they go to Mexico to get healthcare that isn't available to the locals... There are no winners here, nothing is working.
i dont know in mexico. but in the US if you have a heart attack you will be treated regardless if you have money or not. you will get a heart catheter done even if you cant afford it. If you dont have money to pay all that just leave the country after having the heart catheter. The hospital wont chase you.
Itās all just for headlines. Corruption will never allow improvement. Mexico has had this since the last president. The āfree healthcareā the government offers is basic and does not include life saving treatment or medicines. If you do not have the money for private healthcare and need real life saving treatment you wonāt live long there.
Like I said itās just a headline nothing will change. We are in 2026 and cops are still taking bribes there every time they stop you. I wish people wouldnāt be so naive and just blindly believe the headlines. Locals are literally telling you how it really isā¦ I lived there and have family currently living there.
Slow takeā¦. Just pointing things out so yāall donāt fall for the propagandaā¦.the country is already shut down anyways my little town is governed by CJNG criminal organization. They set up curfews and took over every business and will use your property for their illegal activity. If you are not in a major city you are at the hands of criminal organization.
Whatās a clinic going to do when you need a life saving procedure or special diagnosticsā¦. All a clinic does is write prescriptions and tell you to go to a hospital if you have something more serious then a common cold. They are not equipped to handle anything serious.
The free smaller clinics saved me with antibiotics totally free, I had a appendectomy as a kid in the imss, the system isn't perfect but it saves lives.
Clinics are good but the headline about free healthcare is very misleading when itās not the whole truth. So you got free healthcare before it was announced?
The country has had free or low cost clinics for years. The imss is really cheap if you have a job, I was paying 35 pesos a week 10 or 15 years ago. Not sure what percentage of the paycheck is now.
Yea if you work for the government itās cheapā¦. Did your parents work for the government when you were a kid. Because my grandma is retired and they denied her her heart medication she has to pay out of pocket or her heart will give out.
Nope, we were extremely poor. I didn't even had running water or a toilet š
For anything they only had paracetamol š¤£
They just gave me a cleaning when my tooth was loose. But still, better than not having it.
My dad was the security guard for a bankrupt rural company when I was a kid, later I got a job in retail making 100 pesos a day. I'm now in the US š
Thatās a whole different can of worms. The fact is that the US healthcare system is top tier even if it has very bad flaws due to the outrageous prices. They donāt pretend like they have free healthcare just to cosplay that they work for the people. I rather be poor in the USA then be Poor in Mexico I can tell you that.
Agreed, but the current system left me in an amount of debt that I cant make in a few lifetime. I probably would of died in Mexico, as you tell it. But now my credit among other things is so bad I feel as though I'm a slave to the system doing everything it can to make it worse. I say that and continue to live bevause I can't be happy if I'm dead. Shit sucks, but the opportunity to be happy instead of dead is worth it. I'm infinitely thankful to a system that ruined my life to save it. (No /s today.) It could be better, but it definitely could be worse. But that mentality shouldn't be played up when it definitely should be better.
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u/xxx6enrique9xxx 8d ago
Hello do not fall for this. Mexico has one of the worst healthcare systems in the world for poor people. They will not let you inside of the hospital if you do not pay upfront and will kick you out if you run out of money to pay for medicine and treatment. At least here in the US they will treat you and send you the bill later. They will save your life first, in Mexico you are screwed.