The Problem
The Hidden Healthcare Crisis
$61.8B
Remittances Received by Mexico in 2025
The money arrives every month. What it does not buy is a health system: when someone gets sick, the family pays in cash, at the worst possible moment.
Source: Banco de México (Banxico), 2025 remittances received
16.7%
Of Remittances Already Goes to Health
Families are already spending on health with the money they receive. Nothing is prepaid, nothing is organized, nothing accumulates — it is out-of-pocket spending, one emergency at a time.
Source: Mexican Migration Project, health share of remittances, cited in Springer (2024)
$25 to $33
Average Medicine Cost in Mexico, 2021 to 2024
Roughly $8 more per purchase in three years. For a household living on what arrives from abroad, that difference decides whether the treatment is finished or abandoned halfway.
Source: Banco de México (Banxico), average medicine prices in Mexico, 2021–2024
$23.7B
Paid Out of Pocket for Health, Every Year
Across Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. A market of this size, and still no subscription service designed for these families at scale.
Source: 2025 remittances by territory (Banxico, Banguat, IOM, Banco de la República, BCE, BCRP) × 16.7% health share (Mexican Migration Project, cited in Springer 2024)
The Silent Epidemic: Loneliness
15
Cigarettes Per Day Risk Equivalent
Chronic loneliness carries a mortality risk comparable to smoking 15 cigarettes a day — and the family left behind is precisely who lives alone.
Source: U.S. Surgeon General, Advisory on Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation (2023)
+50%
Higher Dementia Risk from Social Isolation
Isolation is not only sadness. It is a clinical risk factor that compounds year after year in the exact population that stays behind.
Source: National Institute on Aging (NIH), social isolation and health risk
29% vs 18%
Loneliness Hits Hardest Where Income Is Lowest
29% in households under $30K a year, against 18% in households above $100K. The families we serve are on the wrong side of that gap.
Source: American Psychological Association (2024)
The Crisis is Real, But Solvable
Millions of families face impossible choices between basic needs and health. For $14.99 to $22.00 a month, SaludCompartida provides services for up to 60% of out-of-pocket health spending — the ambulatory spending that actually breaks a household budget: consultations, medicines and tests.