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  1. I know many of you with Seguro Popular have had good experiences when needing their services, this based on passed posts. So let me share with you what I consider a nightmare situation. About 4 months ago, my former neighbors mom fell and broke a bone in one of her arms. She is Mexican and lives in Guadalajara. The anesthesiologist refused to proceed with the required surgery even thou the Surgeon agreed. The refusal was based on her health condition, she is 87 years old (her children had also signed a waiver in the event she died on the operation table). After six weeks of languishing in pain, her children (9 of them) and myself, chipped in to have a private team carry out the operation using the Seguro Popular facility. 5 days ago she fell again, this time braking a femur. The hospital informed her children that she would have to wait about 6 weeks at the hospital before surgery could be done. My understanding is that she is not considered a priority, and again will be in constant pain. I seriously doubt that she will survive unless private arrangement can be made. Please note that a share this sad situation as many at lakeside are in their "golden age". I have private insurance and had considered not renewing because of the expense. I will keep my coverage because frankly, I do not want to be in a similar situation. I had a serious car accident in 1990 so believe me I know what pain can do to you. As a side note, about a year ago, Dr Sam who was the head doctor at the Red Cross gave a presentation at the LCS open circle. In his chart which was part of a hand out, if you only had Seguro Popular, he wrote "be prepared to die".
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  2. How about a little perspective. Currently fulltime Walmart employee earns 193 pesos a day for a full 8 hour shift. 24 pesos an hour. Typical pay for good fulltime jobs anywhere from driving delivery trucks to local clerks earn possibly 1800 pesos a week for full time work. Maid service is a much lower pay scale in real Mexico.
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  3. Stay on topic and skip the personal sniping. Two posts deleted.
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  4. I feel their pain! When I was here only about a year (10 years ago) I fell and broke my hip which was already giving me problems. I had no insurance, as I was new here, and paid out of pocket for the hip replacement at a major fine hospital with the best surgeons. The cost, at $10pesos/USD, came to $130,000 pesos, about $13,000 USD. Please note that that amount would be a copay with US medical insurance, although it is a fortune to Mexicans. So, I don't own a home, but have savings for medical emergencies even though I pay into IMSS. Remember, the fees here are like copays up north.
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  5. The Seguro Popular is not like private medical insurance. They have a strict formula regarding risk calaculations for elderly and 87 is at a very risky age to go under and have invasive surgery. It is very standard to hear these types of stories [ I personally know of 3 very similar if not exact stories of our friends´ mothers] and I feel for the family but when the calculations of dying during surgery meet a level of predetermined value they will not and can not opérate on that patient. It seems that the family simply do not know this. Their policy of risk calculations is very complex and 2 surgeon specialists and 2 anesthesiologists are involved in the evaluation of the patient. If the family wants to have an outside specialist to be involve they allow that also. They may be waiting to see if her strength improves before doing another evaluation to determine what is next which happened to all 3 mothers we know and they did not get operated on, one was 93 and one was 92 and the other was 89. They are all still alive years later now but their bones did not get aligned properly which is what they do during surgery - install titanium screws after aligning the fractures. They are not in pain. There is a way of looking at this if you see fit to do so.
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  6. What is this? "The pot calling the kettle black¨contest?
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  7. I gotta agree with that. + They're saner, more proud to be of their nationality, have a better social net system, have a cool PM. - They talk funny, laugh at old jokes, will go out of their way to save a dime, had language police in Quebec.
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