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My experience with IMSS has been similar to Gigi's. In a word, it's been excellent. I've had it for a dozen or so years, and at first I rarely used it. For the past seven years, though, I've used it regularly, seeing my IMSS family doctor once a month and several IMSS specialists each two or three times a year. I was also hospitalized once, for three days. There has never been any extra cost beyond the annual premium.

I don't understand, Colleen, the notion that some doctors "would have to be paid for." I've never heard of IMSS working like that. The only thing that occurs to me in that regard is that for the first two or three years of subscribing to IMSS one's care can be somewhat limited. I don't know the details of that, and I never ran across such limitations, but your case may be different. Also, the care for any medical conditions you may have (also known as "pre-existing conditions," as if there were another kind) could be temporarily subject to some restrictions.