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21 minutes ago, glws7777 said:

I am not a doctor also but I have experience that many people have not. I also see myself as a pretty good judge of Character and what I have seen is impressive as far as doctors are concerned in the Old Seville hospital. I have spent time in 2-3 other upscale hospitals and found them to NOT have the best patient client approach and private room or not the service is minimum. At PR there are trainees and they are involved with specialist doctors who are pretty good. I gave you some real hands-on feedback some people will like and others don't like to accept this type of service.

GLWS7777, are you posting about the old Hospital Civil?  The general hospital in Guadalajara?

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Also, it would be illegal under the Mexican Constitution to bar legal immigrants from the system. It will most likely have a means test and age to determine your annual insurance amount. The Spanish language newspapers claim there is/was a lot of corruption and graft under the I.M.S.S. system, at the administrative and pension levels.

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On 12/8/2018 at 8:37 AM, ibarra said:

I asked a person who sells IMSS insurance to give me an opinion about the difference between IMSS and Seguro Poppular.  I am curious about your experience with the information given.  In particular, if you need surgery with SP, does a representative actually check your income to determine the cost of the surgery?  According to SP website, it looks like most surgeries are included with the policy.   Here is the information that I was provided:

1. IMSS provides National wide coverage, seguro popular will provide you coverage only in Jalisco state.
2. IMSS owns more the 3,000 clinics and hospitals national wide, Seguro Popular probably a hundreds in all Mexico.
3. IMSS provides all the kinds of medicines for any condition, even it provides expensive treatment for cancer, diabetics, orthopedic, prosthesis 
Seguro Popular will no cover nothing expensive.
Seguro Popular's hospitals are very modest.
They provides only generic brand medicine, if they do not have you must to buy you medicine.
Seguro Popular provides a very small coverage.
If you obtain a cirgury through Seguro Popular hospital you must to pay for it, the will sent a social worker and SP will charge according income.
In IMSS people pay once a year.
IMSS has beter facilities and is more modern then Seguro Popular.

Another earlier post on this site makes to reference in Mexico Daily News to a totally new federal health care plan to be instituted by the new President over the next few years.

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Thank you DeborahM and Arroyos.  We read the article earlier today and will monitor the situation as it continues to develop.  We have until the end of May (renewal date)  to make a decision regarding keeping IMSS or switching to Seguro Popular

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The post by Ibarra didn't mention that pre-existing conditions are not covered by IMSS initially.  I'm not sure of the waiting time.

SP covers you  for these right away.

It would be best to verify all of the information given in the post before basing a decision on it.

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1 hour ago, CHILLIN said:

Also Sonia Diaz is right on top of this - as usual😀

http://www.soniadiaz.mx/health-care.html

It was good to see her post.  It smacks of knowing what she's talking about and, since she also had surgery under that system, it has the ring of truth.  There's entirely too much rumor and speculation surrounding this subject.

I think it will take AMLO quite some time to get the new system in place, so I don't think we have cause for alarm as yet.

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