← home / Tools / National enrollment registry of the Social Protection in Health System⚙● toolNational enrollment registry of the Social Protection in Health SystemPractices that use itSeguro Popular (Sistema de Protección Social en Salud)Systemic health-financing innovation created by law in 2003 under health secretary Julio Frenk, which extended public insurance to the population without social security: more than 53 million people enrolled in its first decade, with coverage declared universal in 2012. It financed explicit packages of services and a fund for catastrophic-cost illnesses. It was extensively evaluated (including a randomized evaluation published in The Lancet) and cancelled by the federal government: it closed in January 2020 and was replaced by INSABI, which in turn disappeared in 2023.● Discontinued· scale systemic
