To put "teabagger" whining into perspective

Got this from a friend this morning. I don't know if it's been posted yet.

http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2009/08/29/20090829biz-mexicare0830.html

Mexicare: $250 a Year

MEXICO CITY - It sounds like the perfect health plan: medical care with no limits, no deductibles, free medicines, tests, X-rays, eyeglasses, even dental work - all for a flat fee of $250 or less a year. To get it, all you have to do is move to Mexico. As the United States debates an overhaul of its health-care system, thousands of American retirees in Mexico have quietly found a solution of their own, signing up for the health-care plan run by the Mexican Social Security Institute.

"It was one of the primary reasons I moved here," said Judy Harvey of Prescott Valley, who now lives in Alamos, Sonora. "I couldn't afford health care in the United States. . . .

American enrollees have generated some resentment among Mexican taxpayers who have been paying into the system for decades, and IMSS officials say they don't want to be overrun by bargain-hunting foreigners.

"If they started flooding down here for this, it wouldn't be sustainable," said Javier Lopez Ortiz, IMSS director in the popular retirement enclave of San Miguel de Allende.

The medical care doesn't cost a dime after paying the annual fee, and it is usually good, retirees and health experts say. Word of the plan has spread through chat boards and in the "retire in Mexico" books that have multiplied in recent years.


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