2023-04-26 13:41:51
Both the Institute of Health for Well-being (Knowledge), As the Popular insurancewere conceived to contribute to millions of families to be able to access free health services if they are not workers benefited by the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS).
Despite the above, both services presented certain differences, especially in the concept of practicality, since Insabi sought to facilitate service to users with only the CURP of the interested party, while for Seguro Popular some documents were needed to be able to join and have a folio number, such as those generated by the IMSS to their policyholders.
Both services, despite their registration process, offer free services in all their clinics and hospitals, except for the so-called ‘third level’ of Knowledgewhich includes ‘recovery costs’ for highly specialized services, such as cardiovascular surgery, hemodialysis or radiotherapy.
How the Insabi arose in the six-year term of AMLO
The Institute of Health for Wellness (Knowledge) was established by decree on November 29, 2019, as an amendment to the General Health Law and the Law of the National Institutes of Health, in order to have universal and free access to health services and free medicines.
In this regard, AMLO, which began Insabi operations on January 1, 2020, sought to generate a change in public health care, extinguishing Seguro Popular, a program that was created during the six-year term of Vicente Fox in 2002, which it was framed in the strategy of the National Health Program 2001-2006.
In 2018, after his victory in the presidential elections, AMLO He pointed out about the future creation of Insabi: “25 billion pesos will be allocated to launch a federalization scheme for the health system, as well as to start the labor regularization of around 80,000 workers in the sector, including doctors, nurses and administrative personnel who , at least until that date, worked for fees.
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