translated from Spanish: Alcocer says free health will be fulfilled even though Insabi still has no rules of operation

At his appearance in the Senate of the Republic to discuss the gloss of the second government report of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Secretary of Health, Jorge Alcocer, stated that, as promised by the federal government, health services and medicines will be free at all levels, including the third level of care, which brings together high-specialty institutes and hospitals, such as Nutrition or Respiratory Diseases (INER).
Faced with questions from opposition senators regarding the functioning of the National Institute of Health for Welfare (Insabi), which replaced Popular Insurance, and has no rules of operation yet, although it was said that it would have them since June, Alcocer responded with the news that free will be fulfilled for the last month of this year.
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“With regard to the gratuitousness of services, from the first of December, they know that this is a commitment, and we are working to make it done on this date or if possible before, in the institutes and hospitals of high specialty of the country they will already have the gratuitousness in the service and not that people are seeing that they find an appointment but do not have to pay for it, you will be paid, this will be done and it is not after the service, but from before it will be free,” alcocer said.
For this, he said, there was already a point in the budget proposal that was about to be analyzed (in the Chamber of Deputies) more than 6 billion pesos just so that users of these high-specialty instances (the third-tier ones), who treat complex and costly diseases, would have free services and for all medicines,” he said
The official recalled that on one occasion “it was said that someone, who was no longer part of the Secretariat not for that reason but for others, noted that it was very expensive (free at all levels). He was told yes it is very expensive. The president replied directly. But in health there’s nothing expensive. In health there is no budget, there is investment and if it goes expensive it will be provided to patients on a regular basis.”
And in that discussion, he added, in which the opposition of Popular Insurance yes or Popular Insurance does not follow, the secretary sure that they are already in the operation of Insabi, taking into account the treasury, diseases that will be included derived from cancer and others.
The official stressed that this is intended to reduce health inequities by universally accessing free health and drug services for the entire population without social security.
This will also continue to implement comprehensive primary health care across the country. “The Health Model for Welfare was already put into operation, which included the creation of health teams at the first level of care. Induction workshops have been held in the 32 federal entities and the recruitment of just over 6,000 health promoters.”
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Original source in Spanish