The Advantage Of Healthcare In Mexico's Healthcare System

Mexico’s healthcare system is quite inadequate. Even with a profusion of high-quality medical services and facilities, many people only have enough money for basic care. Even though the government has started spending more money on healthcare, it still has one of the lowest per capita disbursements of all OECD countries, outspending only Turkey and Estonia. Mexico started its hard work to make accessible full healthcare coverage in 2004, with a program called Seguro Popular (Popular Health Insurance). This program was planned to make numerous preventative treatments reasonably priced for the less fortunate. Since then, 50 million formerly uninsured people have benefitted. The opinions on the Seguro Popular are separated; some believe that it guarantees healthcare fairness once and for all, while others still see a deficiency of excellence in the services provided. Whether

The OECD Review of Health Systems: Mexico 2016 finds that the portion of the population uncovered to unreasonable or depriving health care costs has fallen from 3.3% to 0.8% of the population in the past decade. Main indicators such as infant mortality, and deaths from heart attacks or stroke, as well as patient satisfaction rates, have improved because of a better access to affordable health care services. And ground-breaking efforts to keep Mexicans healthy – like the sugar tax, food labelling and regulations for adverts targeting children – are well-designed and internationally innovative policies. Healthcare is tremendously important but often overlooked part of Mexico’s national development and economic growth. As with most other middle-income countries, Mexico does not have universal access to coverage for its population. About half of Mexico’s population does not have health insurance under the current siloed