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jfurgers
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Location: Mexico City
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 Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:28 pm Post subject: IMSS |
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So am I understanding this correctly? IMSS is the health ins you get once you are hired? Do you have to apply for it or do they automatically enroll you? Can you also get private health ins? I'm looking online for some health ins through a company here in the States but they are too expensive.
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TheLongWayHome
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Location: San Luis Piojosi
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:00 pm Post subject: Re: IMSS |
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| IMSS is the health ins you get once you are hired? |
You should get it if you're a part or full time employee. Teachers generally fall into the grey area of working on an hourly rate and are sometimes not covered. It's useful if you want to get a mortgage at some point or claim money if you lose your job but check out an IMSS hospital to see if you'd actually want to get treated there. Fortuately Mexico has a lot of great private hospitals which aren't too expensive for one-off things.
Seeing a doctor (privately) can cost anything from $250 to $1000 pesos depending on where his/her surgery is. Alternatively you can queue in the local IMSS from 6am onwards just to get an appointment. |
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jfurgers
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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Muchas gracias longwayhome. I'll figure out the details once I get to DF. In the past when I was there visiting my wife would sometimes call the doctor they knew who lived down the street whenever one of her parents got sick.
The doc would come and check them out then leave and it was pretty cheap. I don't think doctors in the States make housecalls anymore.  |
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notamiss
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Location: El 5o pino del la CDMX
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| Put the lower bound for seeing a doctor at $100... depends where you go. |
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