translated from Spanish: Senate approves health reform

Most of Morena in the Senate generally approved the creation on Thursday of the Institute of Health for Welfare, which replaces Popular Insurance. Before that the opinion had already been adopted in the Chamber of Deputies.
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Reforms to the General Health Act and the National Institutes of Health Act, on universal and free access to health services, generally progressed with 67 votes in favour, 22 against and 14 abstentions.
“Serious diseases will no longer be funded, #INSABI is a lie that unprotects the most vulnerable. If health were a priority for this Federal Government, it would be reflected in the budget,” Pan is Senator Guadalupe Murguía accusing the discussion. 
With the demise of The Popular Insurance, “the right to health of more than 50 million Mexicans is at risk,” said another Panist senator, Ismael Cabeza de Vaca.

Right now they’re voting for the destruction of the #SeguroPopular.
The @SenadoresdelPAN voted against eliminating this program that now accompanies more than 50 million people in Mexico. pic.twitter.com/rkfVZJG4zy
— Josefina Vázquez Mota (@JosefinaVM) November 15, 2019

Morena, through Senator Américo Villarreal, criticized that The Popular Insurance did not guarantee access to the health of all Mexicans.
“Now in 2019, with a policy focused on humanism, social development and reorganization or reengineering, we focus on the creation of the Institute of Health for Welfare (INSABI), to serve the more than 64 million Mexicans without social security and who will be given regard to health as a human right and not as a job benefit,” the legislator said in plenary.
“This government wants to give a great boost to health, providing greater coverage in the opportunity of sufferings and seeking the universalization of services, with a vision from the promotion, prevention, early diagnosis, timely and sufficient treatment of these new diseases of the 21st century. The new model will allow financial sufficiency. It’s not a utopia or a project out of reality,” he added.
The priist senator, Sylvana Beltrones, also questioned whether the budget envisaged for INSABI was sufficient.
“From now on we tell them, this is not going to be enough to execute the project they intend,” Beltrones said.
“We understand that this law is urgently needed to be passed to enter the PEF 2020, but in this budget the proposal that is given, falls short, very short, since it has 128 thousand 589 million pesos to the health sector. Even if we add to this, as you say, the 40 billion that you are going to take from the Fund that we leave you, more if you add all the resources of the Health Service Contribution Fund, the amount would be insufficient for a proposal as ambitious as the one presented here,” he added.

The INSABI minutes have a very good intention, however we vote on abstention in general because we make reservations to make this project viable. We hope that those who are the majority will approve them for health. pic.twitter.com/FHJAYmd7mO
1 Sylvana Beltrones (@sylbeltrones) November 15, 2019

Movimiento Ciudadano spoke out against the creation of Insabi, a substitute for People’s Insurance, in accordance with a Statement from the Senate, considering that “it is an occurrence without a financial study on the cost of universal social security”.
Senator Samuel Garcia said it takes $2.5 trillion in revenue to achieve the scope sought by Morena’s majority bloc initiative.
“For Mexico to be able to give universal health as it comes in the opinion, 2.5 trillion pesos are required, that means that our tax collection that today goes at 13% of GDP has to rise to 34, that is, our budget that today is 6 trillion has to reach 9,” Garcia said. 
“There is no other budget way to guarantee all Mexicans universal health as it comes in this opinion. It doesn’t contain a single economic impact on how much social security costs, but they promise it and say it as the big project of this six-year project,” he added. 
The creation of the Insabi, he accused, will mean that the Federal Government “squeezes the states, giving a final stomp to Federalism, instead constituting an ultra-noist centralism”.
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