And the winner is….
IMSS… our wonderfully inefficient social security/national heath system’s bureacrats.
On Thursday, the federal government awarded a prize for the “Trámite más inútil,” or least useful bureaucratic procedure. Open to the public since September, the trámite competition was not only a humorous jab at the government´s own penchant for red tape, but a serious effort by the Calderón administration to allow the people to voice their complaints and, in the long-term, cut through Mexico´s miles of red tape.
Cecilia Deyanira Velázque, who won a 300,000 peso check for her winning entry, spends several days a month, and stands in endless lines, filling out endless forms to guarantee access to the gamma-globulin prescription her handicapped son requires.
The only thing possibly worse would have been if Ms. Deyanira lived north of the border, and had to work a second, or third, or fourth job to afford insurance for a handicapped child, which would give her the “privilige” of spending four or five days a month dealing with the insurance company.
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