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A coalition of African American and Latino groups, along with other civil rights and grassroots organizations, launched a campaign today to make sure the voices of people of color are heard in the final weeks of the health care reform debate.
A series of TV and print ads in English and Spanish will run in key states and urge viewers and readers to let members of Congress know the importance of health care reform to people of color.
In a press conference today, leaders from Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the NAACP, National Council of La Raza and Campaign for Community Change said recent studies have shown the inequality in the health care system falls most heavily on communities of color. People of color are more likely to suffer and die from diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease and other chronic diseases.
The coalition says uninsured Americans are more likely to use the emergency room for preventative care and routine checkups, forcing longer wait times and costing states and taxpayers more. Says LCCR President Wade Henderson:
Our organizations have been working tirelessly on health care reform all along. Now that it’s crunch time, our collective efforts are critical to making sure that the reforms that become law enable everyone, including communities of color, to have access to affordable, quality health care.
Also, click here to check out the latest in a series of exposés on greedy insurance abuses from Brave New Films. This time, Brave New Films looks at WellPoint—with $2.5 billion profits last year and a CEO who’s paid $10 million—and its affiliate, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield. WellPoint is suing the state of Maine for refusing to guarantee it a profit margin in the midst of a painful recession.
The company says it has a right to guaranteed profit margin—but Americans don’t have a right to guaranteed health care.
How’s that again?
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“A series of TV and print ads in English and SPANISH will run in key states and urge viewers and readers to let members of Congress know the importance of health care reform to people of color.”
This is BLATANT discrimination! Just like the ‘press 2 for Spanish’ BS. There are people in this country from virtually every other country on earth. For all of those who’s native language is neither English nor Spanish it is discrimination to offer ANY ‘alternate’ choice of language unless we expand that offering to include ALL languages! Spanish speaking residents, whether legal or illegal, deserve no preferential treatment! Why this is allowed is beyond me.
P.S. If you ARE in this country ILLEGALLY you most certainly should NOT be covered by any ‘public option’. IMO you’re not ‘entitled’ to ANY rights in this country!
Well said Illegals gohome.
It’s not very nice to talk about the illegals having to go home, especially when it was Bill Clinton who signed the NAFTA & the Central American Free Trade Agreement which is why these migrants keep pouring over the border. If it weren’t for that, & the union busting multinationals hadn’t put most of their resources in using cheap labor in foreign countries, the people in Mexico would have been able to make a living wage & wouldn’t be coming here, & in some cases, dying to get here. This is a social problem, & we’re not at war with them, nor are we going to do anything about the problem, until we do something about Walmart, about the non union American owned pig farms that brought us the swine flu, etc. Those companies don’t want anyone making a living wage & language problems aren’t going to solve that.
Roy we had an Illegal Alien problem long before Bill Clinton and Nafta.You may be to young to know it.Ronald Regan was the first to give them Amnesty it didn’t work then and it won’t work now.Nafta didn’t help the situation but it’s not the cause.They come here because their own country wants them to and does nothing to help them. They rely on the US to keep them from straving to death and so long as we do that they will never stop coming.