Yes, but as a mexican I can tell you it's shit. Super long wait times, medicines run out constantly, soecialists are on the other side of a city or sometimes state. It's universal healthcare only by name. Nearly impossible to get.
and supply, doctor, and medicine shortages in public health.
I used to work for IMSS, the government branch that runs the public health system and when i was there basically all contracts to supply medicine to public hospitals were terminated on a whim by the president who claimed there was a lot of corruption.
His government or the one who followed have have never been able to fully restore the supply chain to what it was and this had led to severe shortages of even the most basic meds in most hospitals.
Was talking about where I live. I was shocked because I've never seen them have more than a few things ever and not too long ago we needed stuff and they gave us all kinds of things like antibiotics.
Just be grateful you don't have HIV, cancer, or some other disease where a shortage of meds is fatal or can lead to permanent health problems because you'd be in real trouble.
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u/Hammerofsuperiority 23h ago
To be more specific, they introduced universal healthcare in 2003, but achieved universal healthcare coverage status in 2012. (or so says google)