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EnsenadaDr
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****FREE MEXICAN HEALTHCARE****
Finally, the solution to getting the Mexican national healthcare coverage, Seguro Popular. By Mexican law, EVERYONE living in Mexico has the right to
free healthcare. If you are a Gringo, you need to get your Birth Certificate apostiled by the Secretary of the State in the state you were born, then
bring it to the nearest Registro Civil in the town or city you live in in Mexico. Then they will issue you a CURP, and you take the CURP to the
nearest Seguro Popular office and they will issue you a Seguro Popular number which is good for routine office visits (if you don't mind waiting in a
clinic), medication (if it is in stock), referrals to specialists, and emergency and critical care.
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SFandH
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Thanks for the info.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
By Mexican law, EVERYONE living in Mexico has the right to free healthcare. |
Dia de los inocentes was yesterday. 
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When I signed up, I got my CURP at the civil registrar by showing them my FM-2. With those in hand, I then was able to sign up for Seguro Popular. I
didn't need the apostiled copy of my birth certificate.
Dave, this is on the up-and-up, at least that is what the government-sponsored radio announcements I hear in La Paz would have us believe.
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Did this also, the guy was really helpful.
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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| Quote: | Originally posted by SFandH
Thanks for the info. |
Ditto
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It is also figured on your income. I pay about 100 dollars US per year for my policy, which I think is a good deal. The important issue is the CURP
card which in most cases, depending on the office, usually does not require an apostile.
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Pescador, I think you are talking about IMSS (Instituto Mexicano Seguro Social). I am talking about Seguro Popular. There will be a meeting tomorrow
at Las Parrillas Restaurant in Chapultepec to discuss CURP, Seguro Popular, Apostilles, and other insurance options at 10 a.m. tomorrow morning, as
there have been numerous questions asked on the Punta Banda Bulletin Board concerning this topic.
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This is wonderful news indeed!! Thank you very much for posting this.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
Pescador, I think you are talking about IMSS (Instituto Mexicano Seguro Social). I am talking about Seguro Popular. There will be a meeting tomorrow
at Las Parrillas Restaurant in Chapultepec to discuss CURP, Seguro Popular, Apostilles, and other insurance options at 10 a.m. tomorrow morning, as
there have been numerous questions asked on the Punta Banda Bulletin Board concerning this topic. |
I love it. I spent my life as an insurance agent and I have trouble reading the policy? No, I am talking Seguros Popular and we have had it in our
area for quite some time. When I get to renew this year, I will see if the cost has changed but I did have a cost. IMSS is for government workers
and they did sell some private policies, but some people had problems if they had a claim and got dropped or did not ever get on in the first place
due to underwriting.
As with a lot of things that occur in Baja California, there may be a real difference of how things takek place in Baja California Sur versus Baja
California.
Here is the website with all of the correct information.
http://www.seguro-popular.gob.mx/
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Sorry for the misunderstanding...
I had a meeting today with someone who pulled out their IMSS card and thought that was what I was talking about. IMSS, from my experience, is a
disaster, I think Seguro Popular is a much better program. | Quote: | Originally posted by Pescador
| Quote: | Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
Pescador, I think you are talking about IMSS (Instituto Mexicano Seguro Social). I am talking about Seguro Popular. There will be a meeting tomorrow
at Las Parrillas Restaurant in Chapultepec to discuss CURP, Seguro Popular, Apostilles, and other insurance options at 10 a.m. tomorrow morning, as
there have been numerous questions asked on the Punta Banda Bulletin Board concerning this topic. |
I love it. I spent my life as an insurance agent and I have trouble reading the policy? No, I am talking Seguros Popular and we have had it in our
area for quite some time. When I get to renew this year, I will see if the cost has changed but I did have a cost. IMSS is for government workers
and they did sell some private policies, but some people had problems if they had a claim and got dropped or did not ever get on in the first place
due to underwriting.
As with a lot of things that occur in Baja California, there may be a real difference of how things takek place in Baja California Sur versus Baja
California.
Here is the website with all of the correct information.
http://www.seguro-popular.gob.mx/ |
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I think anyone who needs free healthcare in Mexico, can't afford to be here legally in the first place. Why impose upon the threadbare welfare system
of another country when the US has it all....and more on the way.
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Great thread... it all helps
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This might be the most apropos page on the Seguro Popular site. It does seem to indicate that, unless you are in a certain economic bracket (unstated
what that bracket is) you will pay something.
http://www.seguro-popular.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_conten...
Hmmm, this could be an in-Mexico alternative to carrying a high deductible with my other carrier, Bupa International. Gotta find out IF it can be used
as supplemental coverage AND if it is accepted at the stellar hospital in Hermosillo; CIMA.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Hook
Hmmm, this could be an in-Mexico alternative to carrying a high deductible with my other carrier, Bupa International. Gotta find out IF it can be used
as supplemental coverage AND if it is accepted at the stellar hospital in Hermosillo; CIMA. |
Consider the aspect of free, then apply it to health care in Mexico, and that will be enough to make you sick.
Wake up, folks.
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Wake up call
Dennis, the wake up call is this. Healthcare in Mexico is acceptable to someone who has a heart attack or stroke. Take the case of Christina Hoff
who was in the General Hospital's ICU. She came out fine, and had Seguro Popular. When taken to a private facility down here, I have heard from more
than one person that if the credit card isn't out with available funds at the private facility, you will be shipped at your own expense to the border
and by that time the clot buster or angioplasty option will not be an option. Consider this: you get taken to a local hospital, get stabilized in
ICU, and then can be shipped after stabilization to a US hospital. The wake up call is this: I work for nothing for the Mexican government, they
don't pay me a dime. Yet other students that are citizens get paid. I certainly don't feel guilty about receiving healthcare coverage. The American
dollar is being pumped into this economy day in and day out, we as Americans probably contribute way more than the average Mexican to the economy per
day. And consider this: every person living in Mexico is guaranteed healthcare under the law. You might have $20,000 to shell out for your ICU care,
but I doubt many Americans retired down here have that available cash. Most Americans would probably want to be shipped back to the States after
stabilization anyways. Its just a safety net to make sure you get semi-adequate acute care until other arrangements can be made. | Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by Hook
Hmmm, this could be an in-Mexico alternative to carrying a high deductible with my other carrier, Bupa International. Gotta find out IF it can be used
as supplemental coverage AND if it is accepted at the stellar hospital in Hermosillo; CIMA. |
Consider the aspect of free, then apply it to health care in Mexico, and that will be enough to make you sick.
Wake up, folks. |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by Hook
Hmmm, this could be an in-Mexico alternative to carrying a high deductible with my other carrier, Bupa International. Gotta find out IF it can be used
as supplemental coverage AND if it is accepted at the stellar hospital in Hermosillo; CIMA. |
Consider the aspect of free, then apply it to health care in Mexico, and that will be enough to make you sick.
Wake up, folks. |
Spoken like a person living within an hour of US healthcare AND who probably has insurance paid for him.
Methinks you havent yet found good medical care in northern Baja............or you have VA or something.
Lots of good stories over here involving CIMA hospital, Dennis.
BTW, I never said FREE; quite the contrary. I am against FREE health care ANYWHERE. People should pay SOMETHING to cut down on abuse of the system.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Hook
Spoken like a person living within an hour of US healthcare AND who probably has insurance paid for him.
Methinks you havent yet found good medical care in northern Baja............or you have VA or something.
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Perhaps you are correct...or not.
I have the best of coverage NOB......100% from the VA....as well as Kaiser Senior Advantage. Medicare A+B also.
As well as that. I have a cardiologist here in Ensenada who treats me well for a nominal feel, but...and but....he's, according to my DRA friend,
inept. He won't schedule timely and appropriate tests to monitor his prescribed meds which, in the states would cost a physician his license.
So....wtf do you think about that?
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Back From the Other Side…Oooooweeeooo
This is a tragic and comedic story by Jerry Shelby, who had a heart attack last February in Ensenada.
The Real Life Adventure of Jerry Shelby
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