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nadinbrzezinski

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9. Right now they cover them with the segura popular
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 10:53 AM
Mar 2012

Which covers all kinds of medical and food needs. I may be critical of the PAN in some ways, like their soft destruction of the division between the state and the church, but the segura as expanded greatly the safety net.

They are having the same exact problem actually that we do in the states. You may have the system in place, now people using it s a whole different story.

The lady that does my mom's hair,to give you a specific example, waited until she had a serious arm fracture to finally get it. There was no way she could afford the 35k pesos it would have run her otherwise. It ran her killing a tree and she got extremely good care.

Another specific example, right now the government is trying hard to support native populations with food and water in areas affected by climactic change, or by now you'd be seeing pictures of kids with bloated stomachs.

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