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Sign Petition So that Undocumented Workers Can Buy Their Own Insurance
11:16 am By la Macha · Health · 3 Comments
23 Nov 2009Please please, before we move on, take just a moment to note the ultimate horrible irony of the title of this post.
Done?
Ok. I just got this in an email:
Dear Friends,
Please sign the following urgent petition to Congress and Pres. Obama telling them to allow undocumented immigrants to purchase health care insurance. The newly introduced Senate health care bill DISALLOWS undocumented immigrants from purchasing insurance even with their own money. This is an inhumane, deplorable, and unacceptable policy that we must vehemently oppose.
Please lend your voice to this very important effort.
In Solidarity,
Efrén Paredes, Jr./Tlecoz Huitzil
http://healthcare.change.org/actions/view/allow_undocumented_immigrants_to_purchase_health_care#
Honestly, this whole health care debate is exhausting me. Over and over and over again, our public “representatives” seem to be deliberately searching for a way fuck me/us over in the most heinous and despicable ways possible. It’s weird how something that is supposed to be about making people safer and healthier requires a good beating before hand.
Needless to say, even if we can defeat this measure, it will be a largely symbolic victory. Undocumented immigrants don’t have the greatest paying jobs in the world–and poor people can always find better things to spend their money on than problems that may or may not happen in the future. Couple this “pay for their own health insurance” crap with the “pay a steep fine” crap that will surely come up again once immigration reform gets put back on the table…and what we have is basically debt peonage run and controlled by the U.S. government.
It’s weird how this clip is the only that can get a smile out of me at the moment.
Higher Car Insurance Rates for Latinos
21 Dec 2005
According to a new study if you live in a Latino or African American neighborhood expect to pay more for car insurance. No matter how you put it minorities always have it bad, whether it’s getting pulled over by the police for “driving while being brown” or in this case having to pay more to drive.
After dissecting the price among the state’s three largest insurers in more than 500 ZIP codes, Consumers Union found car insurance in black neighborhoods costs 37.5 percent to 83.5 percent more than in communities dominated by non-Hispanic whites.
That means the biggest auto insurers would charge a good driver an additional $537 to $974 per year for moving from a mostly white to black neighborhood, according to Consumers Union, the nonprofit group that publishes Consumer Reports magazine.Good drivers living in Hispanic neighborhoods aren’t hit quite as hard. Consumers Union concluded the pricing increase in California’s Hispanic communities ranged from $103 to $214 annually, or 7.9 percent to 18.4 percent.
Via / The Tribune
The Health Crisis
It seems that everywhere I turn lately, I’m encountering more and more articles telling me that the Latino population is in big trouble when it comes to Health. The topics range from lack of medical insurance to obesity. And as a result of these issues, even bigger problems arise.
According to a recent HispanicBusiness article:
Among California Latinos, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and certain types of cancer, account for 56 percent of all deaths. In addition, 40 percent of California Latino adults are overweight and 29 percent are obese.
A recent study conducted in Washington, D.C. tells us:
The findings show only 41 percent of Latino residents have health insurance, about 32 percent have not seen a doctor in more than two years and 61 percent of the respondents were overweight or obese.
Possible Reasons
I’ve been following similar health issues in Mexico, and dietary change was being blamed for a big portion of the obesity and diabetes.
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