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Mexico just rolled out a health care credential that works at any public hospital in the country — no insurance company needed.No deductible. No network. No calling three different hotlines to get denied. Just a card.Mexico just started rolling out a Universal Health Credential that will let any citizen walk into any public hospital in the country — and get treated. It's the first program of its kind in Latin America, and it's aimed at all 130 million people.President Claudia Sheinbaum signed the decree back in April. Registration has been rolling out ever since, block by block, last name by last name, and wraps up in November.Full cross-institution coverage — emergencies, heart attacks, strokes, high-risk pregnancies, cancer diagnosis — kicks in January 2027. Prescriptions and hospitalization follow the year after.Here's the part that should make Americans furious: Mexico is building this on a fraction of what rich countries spend on healthcare. The OECD average is almost $6,000 per person, per year. Mexico is doing this reform on roughly a quarter of that.So no, it's not that universal healthcare is too expensive or too complicated to build. It's that some politicians decided you don't deserve it.Funny how that works.