Medicare Insurance for Americans is not available in Mexico "YET". Medicare recipients are closer now than they have ever been to being able to receive medical services in Mexico and have Medicare cover the costs.
The AMMAC (Americans for Medicare in Mexico) is working to bring together the people, organizations, expertise, and resources necessary to promote and obtain United States Congressional authorization for a Demonstration Project for Medicare in Mexico.
Demonstration Projects are the limited-scale experiments that Medicare undertakes to test innovations in Medicare Program design. Demonstration Projects are aimed at reducing costs, improving health outcomes, increasing Program efficiency, or decreasing bureaucracy and streamlining administration. Medicare does not make large Program changes without first conducting a Demonstration Project.
Medicare legislation provides authorization for Demonstration Projects to be developed and implemented within the United States, but not in foreign countries. Congressional authorization and waivers of a number of provisions in the Medicare legislation will be required in order to implement a Demonstration Project for seniors living in Mexico.
They believe that a Demonstration Project for Medicare in Mexico will prove to be successful on a number of levels.
1. Medicare Program savings will result, thanks to significantly lower health care costs in Mexico.
2. Improved health outcomes for seniors living in Mexico, who are likely to access care earlier when symptoms arise, and to have more frequent preventive examinations and care.
3. Stimulate and enhance improvements already underway in certain sectors of the Mexican health provider industry.
The current focus on healthcare reform in the U.S. provides an opportunity to promote Demonstration Projects, while the need to find Medicare Program cost savings becomes more urgent each year. This is currently the best opportunity yet to bring Medicare services to eligible retirees living in Mexico.
We are very optimistic that Medicare will make its way to Mexico and this will have benefits for both countries. In the mean time you have additional medical insurance options in Mexico. If you need to be close to the United States for Medicare reason we suggest choosing a location that is close to the border like Rosarito Beach or Ensenada. Both of these locations offer all the benefits of living in Mexico and the convenience of being only a short drive to the San Diego border. |