Mexico's Health System in the Face of Neo-Liberalism, its Commodification and Covid-19
Mexico's Health System in the Face of Neo-Liberalism, its Commodification and Covid-19

Author(s): Rodolfo García Zamora, Selene Gaspar Olvera, Dellanira Ruiz de Chávez Ramírez, Cristina Almeida Perales, Pascual Gerardo García Zamora
Subject(s): Economy, Health and medicine and law, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: national health system; neoliberalism; commodification and universal and free public system;
Summary/Abstract: Since 1982, with the establishment of neoliberalism in Mexico, the health system experienced a growing reduction in federal budgets and the growing commercialization of many of the medical services previously offered by the public health system. In this paper, there will be an analysis of how the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 deepened the limitations of the national health system to serve the population of the country and increased the serious structural problems of the health system, such as the scarcity of financing, deficiencies in the quality of services, and unequal effective access. Given this, a restructuring of Primary Health Care (PHC) with actions and public health functions is urgent, not only through a clinical care approach but also with a comprehensive vision of building a unique, universal, and free public health system as a priority of the López Obrador government in the following years.

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