Posted on 08/22/2012 1:12:08 AM PDT by newzjunkey
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 Lancet1. 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.
“The reform was very much motivated by the fragmentation of the system; the injustice and inequity of having where you work determine whether or not you were covered,” says Felicia Marie Knaul of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts, a co-author on the review. ...
Former health minister Julio Frenk, who is now dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and is a co-author on the paper, says that the success is the result of two factors. First, the programme piggybacked on an existing social programme, called Oportunidades, that provides cash transfers to the poor. By having its administrators head out into slums, towns and villages with workers on Oportunidades, Seguro Popular enrolled many families that would otherwise never have known it existed. Second, Seguro Popular has been modified over its nine-year existence in response to scientific evidence on its effects on the nation’s health ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nature.com ...
How many of their people opt out by taking advantage of our system? It makes a big difference.
Mexican Medical Program:
Send their people to the USA where the best care is made available for free by stupid gringo politicians.
Why I go to Mexico....
A:...To party
B:...Free Health care
Hmmmmmm?
The ‘success’ of providing more free care is the easy part.
Sustaining it and paying for it long term, while maintaining quality without rationing... I will wait to hear of a success that includes this.
...and it’s always called a “scheme”.
They live like pigs but have health care...big whoop....
Mexico fixed it’s health care system by sending people north
What does Chile do?? Apparently they have successfully managed the "hat trick" with social security/retirement.
Schemes and claims. Sounds like Obamacare alright.
You have to wonder how much of the payout to the poor comes from our government's global giveaway program, too.
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What's Spanish for 'smoke and mirrors'?
“the country has near-universal health-care coverage.”
So now when they show up for free services at our emergency rooms we can bus them to the border so they can take advantage of this great Mexican program?
The successful part of the Mexican health care system is that there are no manufacturer controls on the pricing of medications. It’s a totally free-for-all open market.
If we did this too, health consumers could get by with a lot less money spent on the system.
I looked it up. Looks like they went the evil “Privitize” method:
“Chile allowed every worker to choose whether to stay in the state-run, pay-as-you-go social security system or to put the whole payroll tax into an individual retirement account. For the first time in history we have allowed the common worker to benefit from one of the most powerful forces on earth: compound interest.
Some 93% of Chilean workers chose the new system. “
Source: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/chiles-social-security-lesson-us
Yes, I knew about the privatization of the RETIREMENT system (equivalent to “Social Security), but my question was about the equivalent of Medicare (i.e. health insurance).
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