Deputies lay the foundation for a health system like Denmark, but without providing resources

As occurred in another ruling endorsed today by the Commission to guarantee rights to indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples and communities, for the universal provision of comprehensive health services The obligation to provide additional budgetary resources was not established to ensure that it is complied with and the reservations proposed by the opposition on this issue were rejected.

The budgetary impact of the reform, established by the Center for Public Finance Studies (CEFP) of the Chamber of Deputies and endorsed by the Budget Committee, was an additional 232,281,634 million pesos; the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) established that there is no budgetary impact.

The ruling opted to validate the opinion of the SHCP: “the deputies of the Commission consider that the recognition of the right to universal, free and comprehensive medical care is a result of greater value than the support of a budgetary cost such as that indicated by the Center and the Budget Commission,” was stated in the ruling.

“We are in two worlds: the SHCP says that it has no impact” so “it will be a reform of saliva” since there are no jobs, hospitals, resources, said the deputy of National Action Party (PAN) Éctor Ramírez Barba.

In the particular discussion, he proposed “if it is not going to cost anything, let us add that the State is obliged to reimburse” for the care that was not received, the PAN member requested.

At the same time, he suggested that a social quota be established for the provision of medicines or services in the private sector in case public institutions are unable to provide them.

“If we are sure – as they say in the morning press conferences – that there is 99% supply, then the refund will be small and if, as the Treasury says, there is no impact, then it is very easy,” he criticized.

The coordinator of Movimiento Ciudadano, Braulio López, proposed a reservation to add that a progressive and gradual fiscal reform of public spending on health should be carried out “and that sufficient resources be guaranteed to guarantee its services and programs by unifying the resources of the health system as well as the sources of financing.”

Eduardo Zarzoza, from the PRI, proposed the addition of a third transitional provision to the decree to establish that the federal government will have a period of 180 calendar days to make the necessary budgetary adjustments to comply with the modifications of the Decree.

Morena rejected all of these reforms and only one was approved, the one promoted by that same bench to add that in addition to all the services that the State must provide, there is the one of consultations.