Local Population Medical Costs

What do the locals pay for medical/hospital/pharmacy products and services? The working-class folks? Just curious of their financial exposure.

There's no way to answer that easily. Most people are too poor to go to the doctor, so they go to the free government clinics. The medicine that is supposed to be available to them often isn't, so many use traditional medicine or do without, especially since the pandemia began and many lost their sources of income. In the sierra of Zihuatanejo the clinics are mostly closed because the doctors won't go to them due to lack of security. Just yesterday, all the women in the town of El Pescado in Coyuca de Catalán (the municipio to our north in the Tierra Caliente) had to take refuge in a clinic and appeal to federal authorities for help due to the presence of armed gangs threatening violence. Luckily the military finally showed up. Some people (usually government and union workers) pay into a fund that allows them to go the local IMSS hospital, known for its lack of everything. The rest of us have to go to the Hospital General or a private clinic whose costs for us are prohibitive. Some medicines here are more costly than in other countries while others aren't. While poverty has long been a local problem, everything here is made worse by the USA's prohibition of and demand for stupidly banned substances which is why we have narcos and cartels in the first place, so just when someone starts to make a little money, they often get extorted or have a family member kidnapped, and the struggle continues.

The hotels and their workers often have Seguro Social and will use the services of the IMSS. Most private doctors charge a minimum of $500 por consulta. Some farmacias such as Simi offer more affordable consultation services and medicines.

The government of AMLO has founded a new Institución de Salud para el Bienestar (INSABI) and is building and staffing new hospitals to fill the void to care for the people who have no Seguro Social. They still have a long way to go, but it is a promising and ambitious venture.

Some states have their own clinics and hospitals, and people are charged according to their ability to pay. For example, by using the state of Guerrero's Clínica Estatal de Oftalmología in Acapulco I was able to get my cataract surgery for about half the cost of a private doctor or clinic.

I don't believe I've answered your question, but I hope I've shed some light on the subject.