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Near-universal Mexican Healthcare Coverage Results From Science-informed Changes

ananyo writes about improvement to Mexico's healthcare system. From the article: "A revamp of Mexico's beleaguered health-care system is proving to be a runaway success and offers a model for other nations seeking to reform their own systems, according to a review published this week in The Lancet (abstract). The key to the scheme's success is the way in which it has modified its reforms in response to scientific assessments of their effectiveness, the authors say. Launched in a law in 2003, the Mexican scheme was designed to sort out widespread inefficiencies and inconsistencies in the country's health-care system. Some 50 million Mexicans — nearly half the country's population — who previously were not covered by health insurance are now enrolled, leading the scheme's architects to claim that the country has near-universal health-care coverage. As well as the increased coverage, the scheme has seen the number of conditions treated under Mexican public health insurance nearly quintuple. Admittedly, the former health minister Julio Frenk, now dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, is a co-author on the paper."

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  1. Re:Here I come. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, thanks to a dedication to the free market, BRAVE MEXICAN Capitalists will BRING the Drugs to you.

    Yes, they will brave this COMMUNIST Hellhole for the sake of profit. How noble of them!

  2. Re:Here I come. by Nadaka · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Mexico isn't demanding rights for mexicans immigrating to the US.

    The fucking US constitution demands rights for all people regardless of citizenship (everything but the right to vote).

    It is the mexican immigrants themselves asking for access to services that may or may not be offered under various state and local laws.

    Get your shit right.