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Seriously, these are empty laws. "Universal healthcare" without any public health budget.
I can tell you what we get here: very cheap private primary care.
Public primary care is so awful and precarious, average MD doesn't want to work there, average Mexican citizens (like me) doesn't get there for cold or a minor health issue.
Many drugstore chains (even Mexican Walmart) employ MDs and offer cheap (~USD$5) consultation service and offer very cheap drugs (generic formulas).
For a common throat infection is nuts to wait days for a "free" health care, with almost no drugs stocks, and wait more than a week for a precarious lab work, when you can go to any drugstore MD (~USD$5) any day, get a cheap lab work any day (non profits private medical laboratory and chains, <USD$15 for a bacterial profile), a get all the treatment (antibiotic and painkillers) by less than USD$20 (even less with discounts).
Is cheap even for our economic standards.
Medical specialists are expensive, but way cheaper than USA. You can access a cardiologist, neurologist, urologist for around USD$40 to USD$75 the visit.
You can die here before a public hospital appointment for a specialist (months to a year backlogs)
Why so cheap? Private insurance here is a (very expensive) joke. Cost too much for 95% of the citizens. People pay directly for services, some even tolerate public health services. Market adapts with cheap services for common health issues.
If you got a rare cancer or illness and not in the private insurance umbrella, you are almost dead. You can read about our infamous survival cancer rate on public health institutions.
I am a low income Mexican citizen with some chronic health issues, I pay for my healthcare and meds.