There are already tax breaks for individuals who open health accounts akin to the individual retirement accounts that have transformed the country's pension system.
Mr Watts even makes the slightly macabre suggestion that blacks should favour private individual retirement accounts, rather than the current system of state-guaranteed Social Security.
Mr Zedillo reformed pensions, switching from a pay-as-you-go system to Chilean-style individual capitalised accounts for new workers, but with one embellishment.
In the cities the main system combines social insurance, paid for by payroll taxes, with individualaccounts, into which workers must pay 8% of their earnings.