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Daniel Garza: Obamacare insults Hispanics

January 24, 2014 by Guest Opinion Leave a Comment
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Embarrassing Spanish-language version of website is the least of its problems.

Hispanic Americans have a rocky relationship with the Affordable Care Act. After years of planning, the Spanish-language version of HealthCare.gov opened two months late and was only officially launched in January. But that was the least of the website’s problems.

The finished product turned out to be more punchline than health care portal. The glitchy “Spanglish” site is not only a technical disaster; it’s also an embarrassment to the Spanish-language and a sign of disrespect to the Hispanic-American community, for whom much is at stake in the health care debate. According to the Census Bureau, just under 30%of the Hispanic community lacks health insurance. This is 50% higher than the African-American rate of 19% and nearly triple the white rate of 11%.

Despite these numbers, the Affordable Care Act isn’t exactly incentivizing us to sign up. Beyond the broken and insulting website, the law encourages Hispanics to forgo health insurance in the same way that it alienates the youth: It’s prohibitively expensive.

Hispanic Americans are much younger than the general population. Our median age is only 27, a full 10 years younger than the national average. We are thus disproportionately harmed by the skyrocketing premiums that the law afflicts on the young.

This is particularly true for states with high Hispanic populations. Nationally, the average 27-year-old man is facing a 41% premium hike, according to Forbes. In New Mexico — the state with the highest percentage of Hispanics — Forbes estimates the average 27-year old’s premiums jumped by 160% for men and 146% for women. California’s is better only by comparison (they’re looking at an average increase of 42%), while Florida’s premiums spiked by 64% for men and 30% for women. Even after subsidies, these numbers can still be too steep for many Hispanics to pay.

A less well-documented problem is how the Affordable Care Act makes it harder for Hispanic Americans to find doctors. Although we account for 17% of the country’s population, only 5% of physicians are Hispanic. This has led to chronic doctor shortages in our communities. Overall, our culture is classified as underserved by the Department of Health and Human Services, meaning that our communities typically have more than 2,000 patients per doctor.

The Affordable Care Act has only exacerbated these problems by restricting the number of doctors covered under Obamacare health plans. Thousands of Hispanic Americans have also lost their insurance in recent months; still others have lost their doctors.

My organization talked to Grazie Christie, a Hispanic-American doctor in South Florida, about how the law has affected her practice. She had no shortage of concerns, arguing above all that the Affordable Care Act does not “place patients first.” As someone who entered the medical profession precisely because she wanted to help, it now pains her to tell her patients, “I don’t have an answer” for whether she’ll still be able to treat them in the future.

Given the realities they’re facing with the Affordable Care Act, it’s no surprise that Hispanics have largely shunned the law. While the latest Obamacare numbers don’t include a breakdown by race, before the Obama administration’s “Spanglish” website launched, officials indicated that fewer than 6,000 Hispanics signed up for insurance in the program’s first two months in California — the model state for sign-ups with a well-run website. In New Mexico, where 47% of the state’s 2.1 million residents are Hispanic or Latino, the number of sign-ups for those months was fewer than 1,000.

If the bureaucrats who wrote CuidadoDeSalud.gov are reading this, those numbers translate roughly into “no gracias.”

Daniel Garza is the executive director of The LIBRE Initiative. View his personal story on YouTube (below)

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Filed Under: Conservatives, Culture, Entitlements, Family, Guest Opinion, Health Care, Human Condition, Latinos Tagged With: Daniel Garza, Hispanic engagement, Hispanics, Latino family values, LIBRE Initiantive, Obamacare

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Hispanic Community Rejects Cuccinelli GOP Brand, Embraces Christie GOP Brand

November 9, 2013 by Cafe Con Leche Leave a Comment
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Chris Christie Ken Cuccinelliby Artemio “Temo” Muniz – The Cuccinelli model for Hispanic engagement and outreach is outdated and the manifestation of dinosaur politics. When Ken Cuccinelli doubled down on Arizona’s mass deportation by attrition approach to illegal immigration by issuing a letter to one of Virginia’s State Senators explaining that it was okay for officers of the law to ask anyone for their immigration status, it sent a shockwave through the Hispanic community in Virginia. Add a radio interview where Cuccinelli strangely commented on rat pest-control tactics and immigration, which was used in a Spanish advertising campaign entitled “What kind of person.” After the blasting of this heavily edited commercial through the airwaves, the anger had reached a boiling point. Latino decisions, a national political polling firm, showed Cuccinelli polling at 29% in the Hispanic Community in Virginia, which places him in the same league as Romney, our GOP brand here in Texas.

Chris Christie, took home 51% of the Hispanic vote in New Jersey, a state which is supposed to be blue. When Governor George Bush ran for President in Texas he obtained 49% of the Hispanic vote. The difference is night and day when it comes to Christie and Cuccinelli. Christie speaks about educating all in New Jersey, distancing himself from the anti-immigrant, in-state tuition for illegals talking point that comes from the CIS, FAIR and NumersUSA political playbook. Christie publicly embraces an earned pathway to citizenship. The Christie approach is not anything new to Texas.

Our Republican Party of Texas is in the process of shedding its Cuccinelli style approach to the Hispanic community, but it is far away from where it once stood when Governor Bush obtained record approval numbers. The greatest indicator of success will be when Texas Republican candidates can maneuver freely like Christie did in New Jersey during his campaign in messaging, policy proposals and returning to the conservatism of Bush and Reagan without fear of backlash. I am confident that we can merge Texas conservatism and the immigration issue into a winning combination. So far our GOP brand has been confusing to the Hispanic community. On one hand, we have elected officials still clinging on to the dinosaur politics of in state tuition for illegals which brands our GOP in a more Cuccinelli-like manner which leads to widespread rejection. Then on the other hand, we have had Governor Rick Perry saving our party’s future by rejecting Arizona-style laws in Texas which rehabilitates our brand back to where it should be leading to acceptance. What matters overall is that Texas ends up in the right place, and as a conservative, you should push for our party to fulfill Reagan’s vision for the Hispanic community.

Editor’s Note: reposted with the author’s permission from TexasGOPVote.com – original link.

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Artemio Temo MunizArtemio “Temo” Muniz currently serves as the chairman of the Federation of Hispanic Republicans, an auxiliary of the Republican Party of Texas. In 2008, Muniz initiated the now defunct “Conservador Alliance” which focused on building conservative networks within the community and reconnecting traditional social institutions. Featured on NPR, Univision, Univision Radio, Huffington Post, The Weekly Standard, Dallas Morning News, San Antonio Express, various newspapers, television and blogs across Texas. Muniz has joined other Republicans in building a grassroots network that has successfully turned a 85% Hispanic Texas town into a 65% Republican voting town. As demographics shift, Muniz believes grassroots and a fresh new strategy will be the key to taking the Texas model to the rest of the nation. Muniz also serves as the Republican National Committee Hispanic Engagement Houston Director, is on the Young Republican National Federation Outreach Committee, and is a conservative speaker for The Leadership Institute.

Filed Under: Campaigns & Elections, Latinos Tagged With: Center for Immigration Studies, Chris Christie, CIS, Cuccinelli rats, FAIR, Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform, George Bush, Hispanic engagement, Ken Cuccinelli, Mitt Romney, NumbersUSA, Rick Perry

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