The American solution to solving the uninsured problem was the Affordable Care Act. The Mexican solution is different.
Seguro Popular is Mexico’s solution to protect their uninsured population. It’s benefit structure is disease based. It’s cost basis is income based. No one is forced to participate and no one is penalized if they don’t.
Maybe we could learn something here as this seems to be a practical, common sense approach to universal healthcare.
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