As Republican leaders try to woo Latino voters with a new openness to legal status for the nation’s illegal immigrants, the party remains at odds with America’s fastest-growing ethnic community on another key issue: healthcare.
Latinos, who have the lowest rates of health coverage in the country, are among the strongest backers of President Obama‘s healthcare law. In a recent national poll, supporters outnumbered detractors by more than 2 to 1. Latinos also overwhelmingly see guaranteeing healthcare as a core government responsibility, surveys show.
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Editor There's enough fodder in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act to last through the election in November and beyond, and we'll be talking about this thing for at least that long - unpacking the nuance, untangling the parts. For now, on an immediate…
By Curt Warner, Voxxi By any measure, this past year was a momentous one in terms of both healthcare policy in the abstract and in a more practical sense for its evolving impact on our daily lives. That the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act of 2010,…
Whether the U.S Supreme Court will uphold the Healthcare Reform Act or not is something I won’t bother to speculate. There are enough opinions and soothsayers out there to satisfy everyone’s need to know. Conventional wisdom puts the future of healthcare squarely on the shoulders of Justice Anthony Kennedy, the…
More than three in 10 Latino families in the United States caring for children under the age of 5 say they support the mass deportations promoted by President Donald Trump, […]