The future of the Prospera program

Abstract

Social security in Mexico has been characterized by the creation of social insurance, which protects workers and their families in the formal economy, and its expansion through assistance programs for informal workers. Therefore, in the health sector we have a clear division between the insured population, which has social insurance (IMSS, ISSSTE, ISSFAM, among others) and the open population without social insurance. Social programs play a major role in the fight against poverty and in the materialization of social rights for many Mexicans. Mexico was one of the pioneer countries in establishing social programs with conditional economic transfers to reduce social gaps and has been a reference for other countries. Among these is the Prospera Social Inclusion Program, whose future, given the change of government, seems uncertain.