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Profile: Patricio Villareal

By Patricio Villareal

"Entrepreneurs will be the biggest creators of new jobs in the next 50 years in Mexico and throughout Latin America."

Mexican entrepreneur Patricio Villareal has discovered something most of those opposing health care reform in the United States could never imagine: making basic health care accessible and affordable can be a profitable business. In 1994, Patricio and his brother Ricardo co-founded Imagen Dental, a company that provides world-class dental, optical and hearing services to middle and lower income patients in Mexico’s Monterrey state at affordable prices. Since its creation, the company has grown to include 26 clinics that employ well over 200 doctors.

But since many of his patients...

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