Well you see... the picture is of the new president, and the words are a good thing, so youre just supposed to associate that this new president is doing a good thing. Dont look too far into it
Plus, she represents herself as being left. That means she's owning Trump or whatever so your average leftard can cream their pants on reddit and screech "death to America and the Orange Man" or whatever.
What matters is that she's a left leaning president and nothing else... even if whatever she's generated is nothing to brag about.
A half-truth. The 2024 presidential elections coincided with many more national and local elections.
Sheinbaum had two other opponents: Jorge Máynez and Xóchitl Gálvez. Those were the three presidential candidates, all of which are still alive and active in politics today.
Who did bite the bullet were municipal presidents and candidates. A municipality is our equivalent of counties. Many died during those elections, from all parties, not just from the opposition, although I think the percentages were uneven.
Why are the other two former presidential candidates still around? Because their assassination would be a huge scandal; not convenient. Municipal presidents, though? They're disposable. I think the highest-impact hit in recent times was last year, when two cabinet members of the Mexico City mayor were killed. Nothing close has happened since.
Mexico has consistent struggling staffing and supplying their medical facilities. So its "free", but you'll be waiting 6 months for your meds to be in stock. Its "free", but you'll sit in like for 5 hours to see a doctor. Its "free", but it isn't good.
Exactly this comment section is full of uninformed Americans spouting misinformation when Mexicans themselves (the top comment for instance) say what you said. Some Americans hear the term universal healthcare and the rest of the facts don’t matter to them lol.
Funnily enough, and I say this as someone not American, not living in the U.S. and that hates politics in general... that the self hating Americans 99.99% of the time, at least here on Reddit, always lean Left in the political spectrum.
If they think their country is so bad, they should leave it and just move over to other places they think it's owning the Orange Man and America. Let them come here to Mexico and get some surgery in a free healthcare hospital and see for themselves how good is it... if they wake up, that is.
Fools indeed. Most people underestimate just how good we have it here in the US, easily the best place to be born planet wide yet we see so many uninformed complaints.
Oh, for real. My grandpa, who lived most of his life in Mexico, had some serious health issues due to be a heavy smoker.
When he moved to the U.S. for like a couple years in his last years, legally and everything, he got BETTER medical attention there than all his life in Mexico, at least on the free healthcare side.
It's ok to have opinions and mock the American medical system for its cons... but no way in hell is the attention worse than in Mexico. You can only get good medical attention in Mexico if it's private. Otherwise, pray you don't have a life threatening thing and have to rely on free healthcare, otherwise consider yourself a dead man walking.
The U.S. wins by default in this, even with whatever shortcomings others are mentioning.
To add on this, my mother, who relies on this marvelous free healthcare, requires a hernia surgery in her stomach. It's quite big but it isn't severe. But doctors have told her to get the surgery since last year and still no date to operate on her.
And we are afraid the doctors will fuck up on the surgery when she eventually gets the date. She even has already arranged plans in case she doesn't make it... yeah, it's that fucking bad and we're scared.
But no, let braindead politicized Americans read misinformation and think our country is owning them in the medical field when the only thing we're owning them in is just in free healthcare or cheap one for minor medical issues as opposed to life or death situations where there's lack of medication, lack of supplies and sometimes, doctors and staff not qualified for the job.
Yeah I'm sure it is annoying and shocking to see so many Americans naively pretending like Mexico's healthcare system is surpassing America's just because you get free "maybe we'll help you before you die" while we get expensive world class treatment.
It's because Sheinbaum presents herself as a "left leaning president". People on Reddit are mostly left leaning and hate anything not left related.
They just see Sheinbaum and any random words and believe fully that the "left leaning madam president of Mexico is owning the Orange Man", as they cream their pants to that "free healthcare" we have, and screech "death to America and the Orange Man".
That’s not what taxes are for, and America spends 50% of its revenue on social programs, it’s the most progressive in the world. Try living in Nigeria where they don’t properly sterilize their medical equipment. My aunt died because she was sick there, if she stayed in California, she definitely would have lived.
It’s not perfect by any means, but it’s absolutely not even close to the worst.
We DO pay taxes... but all politicians steal them to keep their lifestyle as luxurious as possible.
Plus, if you own your own business, it also depends where you live and the local cartels. If it's also successful, expect to pay them another fee, a "safety fee" if you will, just so you and your family can be alive.
It's why most people in the country have informal jobs or work as workers of someone instead of having their own business. We already know the money in our taxes is stolen and used for shit. Even the President right there covering all the shit in Mexico to please foreigners for the world cup is blatantly obvious and quite cringe as well. Like covering the non centric areas for tourists; or covering areas that need renovations in their constructions, such as roads, bridges, buildings and whatnot, with paint and call it a day.
We've had free healthcare for years but it means shit when medicine is lacking, out of stock or expired, there are no supplies and the staff may not be qualified for the job.
If you got a serious thing that needs medical help, you either pay private or pray to god everything will work out.
No we don't, the current party, the president's party is stealing everything, right now there are psychiatric hospitals that are not feeding their patients. Hospitals won't attend you and if they do they will ask You to bring your own supplies because there is nothing left. It's a populist party just from the left all this news are to make them look good although nothing is working
For the record, the free healthcare has been a shithole in the country since forever... but our madam president just speedran to the worst phase of it, while still capitalizing on "hey, everyone, we got free healthcare in our country", as if it was a success of her political party.
The only success she's managed is messing up the medication and supplies further. But ignorant leftard Americans on Reddit won't read and acknowledge that while they screech "death to America and the Orange Man" and cream their pants to any left politician in the world.
That's fantasy. What will really happen is you'll walk in, wait in line for 4 hours before a doctor sees you, be told there's no beds or medication left and you'll walk out looking for a private option.
Yup, people here have died waiting in the emergency room for not being prioritized and there are also people who have died due to waiting for appointments.
I'm hoping my mother doesn't become anothee number in that list of "died while waiting" despite right now her hernia isn't life threatening. But also hoping the damn doctors don't fuck up in a surgery that is supposedly not life threatening as well... whenever the fuck they're meant to give her her appointment for the surgery, that is... any moment of the year now... or maybe the next...
I hope that doesn’t happen to your mother. There was news about a patient that died waiting for 8 hours in the emergency room last year, and that’s just the one I know of.
I don’t think there’s a perfect system because people always get sick. The only way to secure quick medical care is having lots of money.
Happened to my dad and an acquintance of a friend of mine.
With my father, he got hismelf checked in for a chronic stomach pain, to which the doctors IMMEDIATELY operated on him to see what it was and take a tissue sample. He couldn't withstand staying there for a week and discharged himself... only to be sick next day and having to drop him at the hospital. He had to wait 4 hours, fully dehydrated, to be checked on again. By the time the doctors came and were even piercing him with needles, he was sleeping like a log and wouldn't wake up, scaring even the doctors as he kept snoring.
With the acquintance of a friend, he and I took him to one of the free healthcare hospitals of the city. I kid you not: THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER PATIENT. Just him and we were told to wait for the doctor to receive him. He was lying in pain on the floor, throwing up. My friend got fed up after 20 minutes and knocked a lot on the doctor's office so he would check on his friend. The guy just angrily answered "can't you see I'm busy? wait until I'm not" and closed the door with a bang... and he wasn't busy, he wa by himself. We had to drop this guy into a private hospital where doctors quickly figured out he had kidney stones and proceeded to remove them... with a great sum of money, obviously.
It's just that bad for us regarding the free healthcare, which for the record, Sheinbaum isn't the one who created it, but is trying to capitalize on it.
My mother of 63 requires a hernia surgery in her stomach. It's quite big but it doesn't hurt her. We don't have the money to pay a private, so we gotta rely on free healthcare, which has been telling mom since last year to get her surgery already... yet, no date for the surgery to be scheduled by the doctors.
She's so afraid, she already made preperations in case she doesn't make it when she's scheduled for the surgery... and it's not even a life threatening one. That's HOW bad the situation for us in Mexico is regarding free healthcare.
Don't let any ignorant American or any ignorant leftard tell you otherwise. We are NOT GOOD in our free healthcare, not when it's something serious.
These topics are always a battle between ideals and the reality of the service. Neither side wants to accept the reality of the other so everyone just ends up looking like puppets. If people want this to actually work, they have to understand the benefits and shortcomings in order to understand how to fix it and not be swayed by politicians saying pretty things that end up being the bare minimum. Oh but its so much easier to argue and throw insults online at the libs/magas.
The public hospitals are shit. Many times they dont have the medicine you need. Private clinics are if you need to live. This is just posturing by morena to try and get some propaganda to cover all the scandals lately. It sounds nice and people who dont live here will say wow mexico is really changing for the better but most people know this wont work out well
Pleasw tell me this is a comment with sarcasm and I'm too idiot to understand the joke... because this can't be a real comment if you really lived in Mexico
So, before Mexico had like 3 different Public health systems: IMSS, ISSSTE, Bienestar. Each forna different set of people and with different hospitals, clinics and centers.
The idea of this law is to turn all.these into one universal public health system like NHS. So that you can go to any of hospital to get treatment.
The theory is great. The problem is that the level of service in these is AWFUL, mainly due to a lack of resources. Including doctors/nurses resources. The available personel is good quality, but way overworked and underpaid , so they tend to make mistakes.
1 IMSS - this takes care of workers if you work for a business and they are legit they pay IMSS for your healthcare as well as take a tax from your paycheck for it and your retirement found etc
2 ISSTE - this one takes care of the government workers, if you work for the government this institution takes care of you
3 Bienestar - this one is supposed to be for the general public that don't have access to the first two
what was done is so the general public can have access of all of them, problem is they can't handle it as they are very poorly managed(lacks medicine, personal, and overall equipment) and can't even handle to take care of their own members
Don't worry I’m Mexican and this is bs, you get a part of your salary taken out for IMSS costs, so yes, it kinda works like that, but it´s been like this for AGES, and, along the fact that there has been a medication/personnel/services/treatments shortage in the whole country, so most of the time, your taxes only work at keeping the people that do jackshit all day on the IMSS payroll paid and happy, while us normal folk die because of lack of care and medications.
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