Accepted August 2025
This article examines how Chile is fulfilling its constitutional obligation to guarantee access to healthcare for all inhabitants, including foreigners, in the context of significant migratory increases. The article also evaluates the existence of gaps in the quality of health care through the study of common procedures for all women: vaginal deliveries and cesarean sections. Using administrative records of hospital discharges, we document that since 2016, when undocumented migrants were legally classified as low-income and thus beneficiaries of the public health system, the country managed to expand and provide tertiary coverage to the undocumented migrant population. Nonetheless, we find differences in the care provided for deliveries and cesarean sections between foreign and national mothers, especially for women from Haiti.