Breathe
By Marilú Acosta
Of 33 competitors who registered to coordinate the Frente Amplio por México (that is, for the candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic for 2024), only two remain, Beatriz and Xóchitl (in strict alphabetical order). The topic of Health was discussed on August 22, 2023, in León, Guanajuato. Each of the participants had six minutes to talk about health. A dialogue, which was not such, of twelve minutes for a topic, in itself complex, and one of the most neglected during the fourth session. Of those twelve minutes, several were to state the obvious: the cuatroté has let Mexicans die due to negligence, not only with the shortage of medicines and various supplies, but also in the terrible management of the pandemic, with the deconstruction of the vaccination system, as well as the disappearance of Seguro Popular, replaced by INSABI, which ended up being erased by the outlandish idea of IMSS-Bienestar, in addition to the suspicious liquidation of the Fund for Protection against Catastrophic Expenses (Fondo de Protección contra Gastos Catastróficos). And of course, we cannot forget the criminal lack of maintenance of everything, absolutely everything.
Indeed, access to health services for Mexicans has taken a dizzying step backwards and the four quarters, instead of rectifying their decisions, deny the obvious and lie. They lie brazenly, contradicting each other, because they do not even agree to declare the same lie. However, they all agree that it is the fault of others, always, even of children for developing cancer or of people for contracting COVID19 during the pandemic and having previous illnesses. Such audacity on the part of patients has never been seen before.
