Comments on: Living and Dying in the Yucatan http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/yucatan-hospitals.htm Online magazine about living, working and traveling in Merida and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:38:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Working Gringos http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/yucatan-hospitals.htm/comment-page-1#comment-95668 Working Gringos Thu, 14 May 2009 18:49:27 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/yucatan-hospitals.htm#comment-95668 The flu situation seems to be over... it was LONG over as far as we are concerned. There were maybe 1 or 2 cases on the whole peninsula...if that. And no deaths. And yet tourism has fallen off considerably... fear is a powerful emotion. But as far as we can tell, there is nothing to fear but fear itself around here! The flu situation seems to be over… it was LONG over as far as we are concerned. There were maybe 1 or 2 cases on the whole peninsula…if that. And no deaths. And yet tourism has fallen off considerably… fear is a powerful emotion.

But as far as we can tell, there is nothing to fear but fear itself around here!

]]> By: Raquel Fischer http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/yucatan-hospitals.htm/comment-page-1#comment-95667 Raquel Fischer Thu, 14 May 2009 18:02:11 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/yucatan-hospitals.htm#comment-95667 How is the flu situation in Mexico right now? Thanks. How is the flu situation in Mexico right now? Thanks.

]]> By: Khaki http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/yucatan-hospitals.htm/comment-page-1#comment-39168 Khaki Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:33:24 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/yucatan-hospitals.htm#comment-39168 Medicare/Medicaid sometimes does pay for service in Mexico - but it is a VERY narrow band of service, such as for the treatment a patient receives in an emergency AND while waiting to be airlifted to the U.S. - and even then there is an association with only a few hospitals and nobody knows which ones. When that first started, some of those "Medicare approved" hospitals in Mexico actually advertised that they accept Medicare... Hospital Cardiologica Aguascalientes was one of them, but it caused so much confusion that they stopped. Hospital Cardiologica Aguascalientes' new website doesn't even mention it anymore. Medicare/Medicaid sometimes does pay for service in Mexico – but it is a VERY narrow band of service, such as for the treatment a patient receives in an emergency AND while waiting to be airlifted to the U.S. – and even then there is an association with only a few hospitals and nobody knows which ones. When that first started, some of those “Medicare approved” hospitals in Mexico actually advertised that they accept Medicare… Hospital Cardiologica Aguascalientes was one of them, but it caused so much confusion that they stopped. Hospital Cardiologica Aguascalientes’ new website doesn’t even mention it anymore.

]]> By: tamara http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/yucatan-hospitals.htm/comment-page-1#comment-37878 tamara Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:19:05 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/yucatan-hospitals.htm#comment-37878 I am mexican, maybe I have to find an even more poor country than mine to go when I retire, if I ever do because mexicans work almost until death day, so my pesos become big amounts of a foreign currency... I appreciate your comments but do you think about how U.S. citizens and canadians come spend those months in mexico with U.S. salaries transferred to pesos? sorry to tell you this but this is the reason you can actually afford Star Medica, normal people can't... so we better not get sick! I am mexican, maybe I have to find an even more poor country than mine to go when I retire, if I ever do because mexicans work almost until death day, so my pesos become big amounts of a foreign currency… I appreciate your comments but do you think about how U.S. citizens and canadians come spend those months in mexico with U.S. salaries transferred to pesos? sorry to tell you this but this is the reason you can actually afford Star Medica, normal people can’t… so we better not get sick!

]]> By: Carol http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/yucatan-hospitals.htm/comment-page-1#comment-34041 Carol Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:52:53 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/yucatan-hospitals.htm#comment-34041 I have also been taken care of in Mexican (private) hospitals, and the personalized care is great! What I don't understand is how can "older" people think they can get by without some kind of health insurance? Private health insurance in Mexico is VERY reasonable- what's the deal of thinking you can get seen in a private hospital for free or expect not to pay? Also, I have been in the "Seguro Social" hospitals in Mexico, and like the saying goes- "you get what you pay for"- let's be prepared for what life brings us after the age of 50!! I have also been taken care of in Mexican (private) hospitals, and the personalized care is great! What I don’t understand is how can “older” people think they can get by without some kind of health insurance? Private health insurance in Mexico is VERY reasonable- what’s the deal of thinking you can get seen in a private hospital for free or expect not to pay? Also, I have been in the “Seguro Social” hospitals in Mexico, and like the saying goes- “you get what you pay for”- let’s be prepared for what life brings us after the age of 50!!

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