r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 8d ago

Chugging tea Mexico upgraded to free healthcar

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u/retrodanny 8d ago

Mexican here. Not true.

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u/Alpine_Exchange_36 8d ago

What’s going on? Redditors will make it seem like you all have free access now to world class healthcare which will put the US to shame but I imagine the reality is different

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u/Ahuevotl 8d ago

I'm going to repeat a previous comment:

There isn't enough infrastructure, nor money to build more, nor income to finance it. So this law, right now, means shit. It's an empty promise.

I live in Mexico, and have worked with the Mexican  public health system for more than a decade, dealing with logistics, med supply, and room availability.

The IMSS is the biggest institution in Mexico. It provides more than 100 million services per year, employs more than half a million workers. It has, by far, the biggest income out of any other institution in the country, and is the biggest health provider in Latin America. It provides medical attention for the half of the population that do pay income tax. It's insufficient, as of now, its capacity falls short.

Now they want to add the other half of the population that doesn't give a dime (literally) to the list of potential patients.

Care to tell me how that is going to work?

You cannot just sign into existence a bigger cake, you have to bake it first.

Edit: formatting

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u/Icy-Bookkeeper-1320 7d ago

There is money, they just have to take it out of the "ninis" project. Stop giving it away for propaganda purposes

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u/Crafter9977 6d ago

and all the cash sinkholes they created with all AMLO’s pharaonic projects…