Medical care in Mexico.

My understanding is that there are at least three levels of public health care in Mexico.

For my employees, I pay for seguro social (IMSS). That provides a level of health care services.

As a non-employee, I could choose to enrol in seguro, but my priority for service would be below that of a worker.

Non-employees may chose to enroll for seguro popular. That too is a level below seguro social.

People might choose to enroll in neither. A carpenter who,has done some work for me needs heart surgery in DF. His family is fundraising for it.

And the services of seguro ate not universally applied. Guerrero is a “have not” state. It is not as politically powerful as other places. The health care services of seguro in Zihuatanejo are not as the might be elsewhere.

Seguro Popular no longer exists as it used to. Our saving grace in Guerrero is that we are now the home state for the national healthcare system that was moved here from Mexico City as part of the president's decentralization efforts. Hopefully we'll at least get a nice new modern hospital out of this new arrangement. But for the moment we're still in transition mode.