Americans Living in Mexico Praise 'Seguro Popular' Universal Health Care The Yucatan Times
go to original July 16, 2014

An American couple living in San Miguel de Allende Mexico, the town with the largest concentration of Expats in this country, wanted the insurance in case of an emergency, so they enrolled. (Richard Grabman)

Universal Health Care is currently at the center of a heated debate in the United States, but in the neighboring nation of Mexico, it’s a reality.

Yes, now Mexico offers coverage to millions of uninsured people, and even some Americans living in Mexico have taken advantage of this new insurance program.

10 years ago, half of Mexico 110 million people had no medical insurance whatsoever, because in Mexico like in the U.S., most coverage was linked to employment, but now they have universal health care, thanks to the “Seguro Popular”.

...Premiums are charged on a sliding scale, home ownership is one if the deciding factors, anyone can sign up for the government funded program, most people that make little or nothing, children are fully covered.

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