Alma E. Muñoz and Alonso Urrutia
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, October 23, 2025, p. 8
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced that the new universal health system will operate with a financial compensation scheme between institutions in the sector, with the aim of guaranteeing medical care regardless of eligibility.
“The universal health service is going to be created with a clearinghouse, it is called, for which all services need to be digitalized,” the president indicated in her usual press conference.
IMSS, Issste or IMSS-Bienestar may care for any beneficiary and within a period of two months request the transfer of the resources invested in that care to the institution to which the patient is affiliated.
To exemplify the operation of this scheme, the president used her own name. “Claudia Sheinbaum arrives at the IMSS, and I have Issste; it turns out that I am in a place where I cannot access my health center because I left Mexico City and it is closer to me for any issue – be it specifically cancer care, or later we are going to do it for all services – a Family Medicine Unit.
“The IMSS registers you and in two months you have to request recourse from the ISSSTE for the care that the beneficiary Claudia Sheinbaum received.”
Then, he added, “in order to make universal services, the digitalization of all services is required and a clearinghouse so that, if I was treated in a hospital that does not correspond to my right, that institution can tell the Issste: ‘I treated this person’, and the resources are transferred.”
He stated that “that would not have to do with the patient. He arrives at a place and is treated. Everything else would be done by the government institutions themselves.”
