I was going to ask a question about Mexico's healthcare system

[underpants]

but instead I did some research and reading and was a bit shocked at what I found.

Is this accurate???

The question was going to concern how of all the horrible things we hear that illegal immigration entails the one element that was the major concern regarding my ancestors coming here, disease, is rarely mention. I wondered why.

Seems those Mexicans have them a health care system that is quite good.

AGAIN-Is this accurate???

I have to say that I was expected (brainwashed) to find that the reason we don't hear about disease and so forth was a societal thing in which the ill are not only taken care of by the group but they are forced to get well or else they risk infecting the others which could cause them to miss work (money as well as necessary duties)-wow was I ignorant.

http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special03/articles/0911mexico-health11.html

About 160,000 California workers - farm laborers as well as working-class Hispanics employed at hotels, casinos, restaurants and local governments in San Diego and Imperial counties - are getting their annual checkups and having surgeries through health networks south of the border, insurers say.

The arrangement is less expensive for employers and employees. In Mexico, health care costs are about 40 percent to 50 percent lower than in California, freeing some employers to offer services that they couldn't afford otherwise. advertisement


Employees enjoy lower premiums and co-pays, typically $5, and the comfort and convenience of describing their aches and pains in Spanish to doctors who, they say, tend to take more time with them.
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http://www.medtogo.com/l/live-retire-in-mexico/mexico-health-care-system.html

[ThreeCatNight]

1. Everywhere but here..... sad sad sad.. nt

[knitter4democracy]

2. A friend of a friend got some of her cancer treatment in Mexico.

It was cheaper, and they were more willing to take a chance on fighting for her than the docs here. It gave her more time than she would've otherwise.

[UTUSN]

3. Crossing the border (South), you can get a $60 medication for $5 n/t

[msongs]

4. sound cheap to us, but not affordable there to most mexicans nt