Mexican health care–better than the stereotypes, not as good as the hype

Carol Schmidt
Maxico
In the midst of the US debates over health care reform, many are examining the health care system of Mexico, claiming that it is far superior to that of the US, and that it is luring thousands of US citizens to Mexico because they can’t afford health care in the US.

In some ways those claims are true, and at the same time this publicity is a simplistic politicization of a complex reality.

This oversimplification is also being used by those who want to expand US Medicare coverage into Mexico for the benefit of the hundreds of thousands of US citizens who have already moved to Mexico. Read More…



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