ObamaCare? Or CalderonCare?<\/font><\/p>\n If it’s a race, Mexico has a serious head start. Felipe Calderon entered his presidency with an eye on expanding health care, just like someone else we know. <\/font><\/p>\n Mexico’s version of Kathleen Sebelius visited Kansas City on Friday, signing agreements on research, training and care with Children’s Mercy Hospital and the University of Kansas School of Medicine.<\/font><\/p>\n Most of us last saw Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos, Mexico’s secretary of health, with a blue mask hanging from his neck as he released the latest news about the swine flu outbreak in his country.<\/font><\/p>\n But there is different health news from below our border these days. While our Congress struggles over bills that would not take effect for years, Mexico\u2019s goal is comprehensive care for all by 2011<\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n The goal got pushed back a year, but it\u2019s still a tall order. According to Cordova, before 2004, only half of Mexico\u2019s population was covered either by private insurance or the government. Mexico’s poorest had to seek help at public hospitals and were expected to pay.<\/font><\/p>\n Seguro Popular was the first step. That insurance now protects more than 10 million families that are not enrolled in other health care programs.<\/font><\/p>\n More recently, Healthy Pregnancy care has expanded to 400,000 mothers and their children. With Medical Insurance for a New Generation, coverage has been extended to 2.2 million children and their families.<\/font><\/p>\n Mexico’s mortality rate for children younger than 5 has been dropping. The admirable focus on its youngest citizens explains Cordova’s presence at Children\u2019s Mercy. The hospital has partnerships with a children’s hospital in Panama City, Panama, and one in Quanzhou, China, but the deal with Mexico is the first with another country\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <McClatchy DC<\/a>><\/p>\n And our wealthy nation can\u2019t beat Mexico?!<\/p>\n I\u2019m sorry that this is all I have for you today. Yesterday was incredibly slow for news. I have a couple editorials percolating between my ears, but they aren\u2019t fully formed yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every member of the US Congress, political parties not withstanding, should feel shame that they have been bested by Mexico. Which is more apt to achieve the lofty political goal of universal health care coverage? ObamaCare? Or CalderonCare? If it’s a race, Mexico has a serious head start. Felipe Calderon entered his presidency with an […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"clinicmex\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/HealthCareReformGuessWhoIsBeatingUs_28AD\/clinicmex.jpg\" "\\"clinicmex\\"")
<\/a> Which is more apt to achieve the lofty political goal of universal health care coverage? <\/font><\/p>\n