On October 24, the Chamber of Deputies passed a bill to reform the General Health Law and create the National Institute of Health for Welfare (INSABI, for its acronym in Spanish). The new entity will be in charge of distributing medicines for people lacking social security. The new Reform program also envisages changes to the Catastrophic Health Expenditures Fund and is the basis for the National Health Plan presented by the Federal Executive on Monday, October 21. The bill was submitted to the Senate for further debate in the coming weeks. 

The text amends various provisions of earlier General Health Laws and National Institutes of Health, with the aim of creating a new entity with the faculties to ensure that people without social security in the country have access to oncological and other kinds of medicines. The ruling party in Congress is thus attempting to achieve the aim established by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), of State-guaranteed health protection under the criteria of universality and equality.

The bill also modifies the Catastrophic Health Expenditures Fund (resources intended to provide highly-specialized medical services to persons lacking Social Security suffering from high-cost illnesses which put their lives at risk as well as the welfare of their families), to be replaced by the Welfare Health Fund. This was fiercely criticized by the opposition, and will probably be a focal point of the debate in the Senate.