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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."
Please don't make things up because you got but hurt that someone yet again pointed to the shining examples thrust at us with the claim of being better and pointed to the deficiencies saying that is what i don't want.
No one in the US has had to sell their house to get medical tests or treatment unless they were purposely trying to manipulate their income and assets to sneak into a government program and have the state pay for their health care. There are people who lost their income from not being able to work who lost their houses (foreclosures), but nothing in the Obamacare (you happy?) or the mexican coverage will prevent that.
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!
Here's a statement I read that will get me downmodded because it burns your ears because it's true: You can't give out things for free until other, better nations invent them for you.
This is an idiotic, hunter-gatherer attitude that sees treatments that already exist and takes them from the farmers who produce them.
If you actually cared, you would at least craft universal care laws (and general laws) that didn't kick the producers in the balls on a daily basis.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
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.