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Nice work Mexico!
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Now they are going to need a wall to keep american's out.
It's suspicious that mainstream media never reports this.
To be fair I thought they already had this.
Too bad 3rd world countries like the US can't do that :(
I voted her for this kind of policies, but reality is not that simple. Public healthcare costs a lot of money, and current facilities and personnel are in the stone age. I wouldn't go to any public healthcare facility right now as my first choice. At least not where I live. Sustained investment and vigilance are key, and I hope that by the end of her mandate we will have something we could call a proper public healthcare system, not yet a decent one, but an existing one.
Public healthcare costs a lot of money
True. But private healthcare costs even more.
True. But it only matters if you are alive. Look, I'm not trying to be cynical, we have both systems in Mexico, and I've experienced both as a client. I'm all for public healthcare, but if it doesn't work, it's only a pretty idea. On the private side, yeah it's fucking expensive, but it kind of works for the ones who can afford it. Just to be clear, we agree.
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A step in the right direction. Thank you for sharing the realism on a clickbait title.
Mexicano Tijuanense aquí, I concur
Although the voter ID registration for existing and new phone numbers is dumb as shit. Complete erosion of privacy.
Sí, esas mamadas qué?
This kinda thing doesn’t turn on over night. You might be able to afford private, but very few will be able to. The American paid system has a 3-9 month wait for doctor visits right now in Tucson. My doctor also doesn’t even physically examine me anymore because they’re so rushed to get in other patients, because capitalism.
Edit: not that capitalism is evil, it just has no place in healthcare.
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Still something better than the US, where some wait (or are poor so they just need to go to the ER) until the ER when it’s too late. The only prevention is those with regular insurance and use it.
Luckily the US built a border wall so Mexico won't be overflooded with illegal immigrants trying to profit the free health care.
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This stands out even more because we're in an era when even countries with Universal Healthcare have been walking back on it (as well as Social Security, Unions and other earlier Leftwing conquests) by privatizing them piecemeal through things like forced outsourcing of some services and public-private initiatives.
What's important to note is that these placed aren't going back on it because it doesn't work. They are going back on it because of back room deals made with corporate insurance lobbyists and their bought politicians. Profit is always the driving force for privatization.
Exactly.
You can just look at the experience of creating the National Health Service in the UK (there's a bunch of documentaries floating around) to see how it's an overall positive for Society by a large margin, not just directly but also indirectly because for example when people can go see a doctor for free they are far more likely to end up being treated for sickness early on (which its cheaper and easier) or to get treatment for debilitating but not life threatening conditions which in turn even gets reflected in higher Economic outcomes because healthier people are more productive.
Universal Healthcare Systems only "don't work" for those who are fatcats getting a slice of that sweet sweet 13%+ of national GDP (about 18% in the US) that goes into Healthcare in the average country.
Yes it's what's happening here in Canada and it's sickening. But it looks like it's better to blame the left for no reason, so why vote for them? Better keep slowly dismantling everything we collectively built instead!
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Better put their own wall up before the Americans start pouring in.
"I told you Mexico would pay for it!"
I was literally just thinking retiring to Mexico doesn't sound terrible in the future.
Climate change is not boding well for Mexico unfortunately. You can expect severe water shortages in the coming decades.
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not free; tax funded
Which is great! Taxes should be invested in citizens’ needs.
There is “free as in beer” and “free as in speech” — this is “free as in theme park rides.”
You already paid.
Free as in "free at the point of service".
Of course it is paid for somehow.
But as far a a someone going into a hospital to get a cast, medicine, birth... It's free
That’s true. Unfortunately, calling it free is often used by people who want to paint it as infeasible, and is used as an excuse to cut funding—even when data shows it’s an investment with human and monetary rewards.
Conservative America is driven so hard by the fear of somebody poorer than you getting something you're not.
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Who's the shithole country now, America? 😂
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Ah, so that's why the US is getting more aggressive towards Mexico. Can't have universal healthcare so close to the border.
Americans are already going there for cheaper health care. My dentist recommended some expensive work, and when I told him it cost too much, HE suggested I go to Mexico, and get it done for a third the cost.
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How will this impact the medical tourism industry that Americans depend on for affordable healthcare?
You're not kidding. Some towns like Los Algodones built their entire economy around medical tourism.
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Fuck. I really should have taken Spanish seriously back in High School after all
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Mossad and the cia are going to go there to arm criminals plant terrorists destroy all hope
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Congratulations Mexico! It’s nice to read a positive article for once. Happy for everyone this allows a pathway to getting the healthcare treatment they deserve.
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