I know. It’s sad.

Julia C Taylor

Ocationally, I get a very angry response–similar to yours–to my description of our terrifying experiences with IMSS. It was my experience, not yours, so why do you get so angry?

I’m sure if your loved one was in shock from pain and not getting the care he or she needed, you would have been quite upset. I’m not making it up. You even admit that IMSS is a “pain.” What does that mean? It’s been interesting being poor and telling about it. People actually treat me rudely, like you.

I did look into getting private insurance, but it would have cost a MONTH’S wages every year, so that wasn’t an option for us.

Also, I didn’t write that children are vaccinated for polio, I wrote “tuberculosis.” I’m not the only one who had those questions about vaccines. That post is a response to a young woman who was asking because she had seen the same scars and wanted to plan ahead for her own children. I guess she lives in a different part of Mexico than you, since you have never seen the scars and she and I both have.

Finally, you misinterpret my attachment to the US. It’s not as strong as you believe.

Julia C Taylor

Thank you for your valuable comments. I’m glad to hear that you have had good experiences with IMSS. I’m starting to suspect that IMSS provides better services in other places. It’s either that or racism was at work. My husband is very brown-skinned.

To answer your question of “so if he hadn’t been fortunate enough to have the insurance kick in, then what?” I have to say I honestly don’t know. Since we weren’t going to give anyone any bribes, I guess he was going to have to walk out before he was too weak to walk. They were waiting for the swelling to go down, but placing the arm down by his side. We could have provided better care at home and the arm would have either healed all crooked — the shattered pieces some how welding together or we would have scraped together the money for a private doctor. All I know is that they were doing nothing to care for the arm.

Keep the great comments coming. Each experience is so different; this site will be more useful if people share their real-life experiences.

I have never experienced the issues that are discribed by this person.

So, if he hadn’t been fortunate enough to have the insurance kick in, then what?

Yes, IMSS is not the best option for some folks. The offices are very auster and the folks sometimes are not as happy as we would like them to be, however if I had a choice of not getting medical attention I needed because I could not afford it or IMSS. I would take IMSS any day.

ALSO of course like the US there are good facilities and bad facilities. My mother in law who is Mexican is alive today because of the efforts of IMSS. In the States she could have NEVER afforded even the medicine she requires to stay alive!

sign me,

living happily in the Yucatan!