During its little more than three years of existence, the now disappeared Institute of Health for Wellbeing (Insabi) It spent 376.8 billion pesos, without having managed to meet the objective of providing quality health services to the population or replacing its predecessor, Seguro Popular, being one of the main failures of the last six-year term.
So much so that the architect of its creation, the former president Andrés Manuel López Obradoradmitted last July that the Institute never achieved its objectives and represented an “administrative setback for his Government, hence the decision to disappear it and create the IMSS-Wellbeing.
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With this, the now former president left power without having fulfilled a promise that he postponed each year of his six-year term: consolidating the national health system to convert it into one similar to that of Denmark.
Inheriting that task to her successor, the president Claudia Sheinbaumwho seeks to consolidate the IMSS-Wellbeing to bring free health services to people without social security throughout the country.
However, the former president’s experiment had a cost for the country, since the Seguro Popular created by the former PAN president Vicente Fox disappeared, under accusations of corruption, leaving the uninsured population without its services.
In addition to the fact that during his short life, the Insabi spent 376.8 billion pesos, which were not reflected in an improvement for the health service of Mexicans, causing its disappearance.
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In October 2023, the former Attorney General of the Republic, Ignacio Morales Lechugaaccused through his X account that the transparency requests towards Insabi were being discarded, arguing that Insabi had already disappeared.
Given this, he pointed out that “this could be the biggest deviation of the six-year term and no one has said anything.”
bottomless pit
Created in November 2019 by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, that is, a few days after the approval of the 2020 Expenditure Budgetbegan to operate without resources directly assigned by the Congress of the Union, so liquid budgetary adjustments were transferred to it to begin operating.
In 2020the Institute spent 106,124 million pesos, of which 96,590 million were allocated to current spending, mainly in the “Subsidies” itemswith 52 thousand 686 million pesos, and “Others of Current”for 37 thousand 45 million pesos, corresponding mainly to transfers to the Health Fund for Wellbeingaccording to the Analysis of the Fiscal Year of the 2020 Public Account Expenditure Budget of the Ministry of Finance.
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For the following year (2021), the Institute spent 113 billion pesos, 26.5% more than what the Congress. While for 2022, spending reached 114,513 million pesos, 10.8% higher than what Congress approved.
It was in 2023 when finally institute spending decreasedeven below what federal legislators assigned it, with only 43 thousand 187 million pesos, that is, 59.7% less than what was approved… Due to the sudden disappearance of the organization, on June 1, 2023, the resources were transferred to the new federal health project, the IMSS-Wellbeing, and the Ministry of Health.
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