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...Harvard Latino student group is trying to persuade voters in Jamaica Plain to vote “no” on a ballot question that would mandate English-only education for public school students who need to learn the language...
California officials decided to regulate the plans rather than shut them down and lose the benefit of low-cost health coverage in a state where an estimated 4.5 million are uninsured--more than half of them Latino. In 1998 California passed legislation that allowed Mexican HMOs to operate in the state, provided they offer benefits solely to Mexican nationals. SIMNSA was granted a license in 2000. So far, it is the only Mexican HMO approved to sell cross-border policies in California...
Though most buyers of cross-border insurance policies are Latino, the price and quality of Mexican health care attract non-Latinos as well. Marvin Morton, 40, a sheriff's deputy inSan Bernardino, Calif., wanted to get laser surgery to correct his deteriorating eyesight but was unable to have the procedure he wanted covered through his U.S. insurer, Kaiser Permanente. The cost out of pocket, he said, was "outrageous" at $3,000 to $5,000. So Morton and his fellow deputies lobbied their union, which came up with an alternative. The union contracted with two doctors, one in Irvine, Calif...
...border patients who can see doctors in Mexico. A typical Health Net co-payment that costs $15 in the U.S. will cost $5 with a Mexican provider, says Ana Andrade, an associate vice president for Health Net of California. But it's not all about economics. The plans' mostly Latino members are also attracted by doctors who speak Spanish and who generally spend more time consulting with patients than do their U.S. counterparts. "The service is warm and empathetic," says Eduardo Pesqueira, a director of economic development for Mexico's Ministry of Health and also a physician. "The doctor...
...Texas, where a majority of the nearly 5 million uninsured are Latino, the state legislature approved legislation last year calling for a study on the cross-border health-care issue. The results will be presented to legislators next year, when they will decide whether to amend state law to allow for cross-border insurance...