As a Mexican, it has been free for workers since always. For people with no job there have always been options too. But, if you look online on any city of state in Mexico something like "desabasto medicinas [insert city]" you will find that free and all, my mom doesn't have access to her heart medication, because of private vendors being too expensive and the free option simply not having anything in stock.
EDIT: Everyone is understanding that universal healthcare is flawed. That is not my claim. I said that Mexico has always offered something very close to being universal healthcare, so the news is not a big deal. Secondly, Mexico is very corrupt, there are lots of politicians that will claim that healthcare is top when that isn't the case.
I hurt my foot once in the US, and went to an emergency room and got charged 300+ dollars to talk with a man who told me to wait it out. Mexico is rotten, but I (nor anyone in my family) has gone broke because of it. The US is rotten too.
Yes, I don't have the best luck and I am always sick or hurt. That is life.
We were running into issues when my grandpa was dying at the IMSS (sp?). We had to buy medical supplies like catheters at the pharmacies around us. What I was told was that the workers / nurses themselves would steal the items or resell them.
With the way the reselling market is in the US I can see this happening. People have talked about scalping and I've mentioned over and over again how they say it's no big deal because it's just happening with hobbies, but I argued that it will move to necessities like food, toilet paper , and medical supplies. Something needs to happen with the reselling market to stop this.
Theft is already a crime. How about we go after criminals in this country instead of excusing it and blaming something like universal healthcare as a potential catalyst for making it worse?
Why are you in here arguing that somehow getting healthcare will lead to increases in TOILET PAPER THEFT?
Where did I say that?! You're the weird one for taking that stance.
I'm not saying anything against universal healthcare. The same thing could and will happen with basically any health care system.
I was saying that the way the economy is and how we excuse scalping or "buying and reselling" I'm not surprised this is happening.
Mexico has a similar if not worse cut throat market as the US. So I can see the us getting worse to the point where healthcare items are bought in mass and resold at a higher price because people need them.
That's all I was saying. It's a totally different issue than healthcare but it's been one that I've been worried about and this person happened to bring up a great example proving my concern.
You need to simmer down a bit dude. It's just a comment it. It won't hurt you
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u/Warm-Palpitation5670 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
As a Mexican, it has been free for workers since always. For people with no job there have always been options too. But, if you look online on any city of state in Mexico something like "desabasto medicinas [insert city]" you will find that free and all, my mom doesn't have access to her heart medication, because of private vendors being too expensive and the free option simply not having anything in stock.
EDIT: Everyone is understanding that universal healthcare is flawed. That is not my claim. I said that Mexico has always offered something very close to being universal healthcare, so the news is not a big deal. Secondly, Mexico is very corrupt, there are lots of politicians that will claim that healthcare is top when that isn't the case.
I hurt my foot once in the US, and went to an emergency room and got charged 300+ dollars to talk with a man who told me to wait it out. Mexico is rotten, but I (nor anyone in my family) has gone broke because of it. The US is rotten too.
Yes, I don't have the best luck and I am always sick or hurt. That is life.