They warn of a decline in the stock market for the health of the uninsured population

By 2025, it is estimated that federal health spending per user without social security will be 4,490 pesos, 22.6% lower than what was approved in 2024, warned the group México Evalúa.

In the analysis “Health for everyone. Guaranteeing that all Mexicans have access to health” the civil organization said that health spending for people without social security has decreased significantly in recent years.

“In 2020 Seguro Popular was abolished and replaced by Insabi; However, in the middle of 2023 it was ordered that the disappearance of Insabi IMSS-Wellbeing was implemented. The changes in the methods to operate access to health services are not accompanied by a budget increase: in 2024 the approved budget for the IMSS-Wellbeing is 127,000 million pesos, 13.7% more than the Insabi in 2023, but more below what was achieved. with Seguro Popular in 2012 and 2013,” it was pointed out.

In this context, México Evalúa reported that the cost, per user, of the IMSS-Bienestar for this 2024 was 1,812 pesos, a decrease of 4% (77 pesos) compared to the last year of Seguro Popular, or 27% (654). pesos) compared to the peak in 2012.”

The NGO explained that, in general, access to health has worsened since, “in 2018, 20 million people did not have access to health services (16.2% of the total), after the pandemic distributed such need affected 50.3 million in 2022 (39.1% of the total).

Fonsabi

Regarding the Health Fund for Wellbeing (Fonsabi), México Evalúa pointed out that it is unclear and there is no certainty about what has been spent on it, in addition to the fact that its resources have decreased.

“In 2021, Insabi made transfers to Fonsabi for 64.4 billion pesos, which was considered effective health expenditure. However, that same year, Fonsabi returned 101,000 million pesos to the Finance Department of the Federation, so the record of the resources was lost, that is, it is impossible to know if they were spent on health. Then, in 2022, Insabi transferred 49,000 million pesos to Fonsabi, who returned 72,000 million pesos to Tesofe. That is, for two years in a row health spending has been increased,” it was said.

Regarding the resources in the NGO’s analysis, it was revealed that they have decreased by half.

“At the end of the last six-year term it recorded 117,000 million pesos, but at the end of 2023 it had only 41,000 million, 65% (76,000 million) lower than what it had at the end of 2018,” he said.