Latino Leaders Discuss Health Care Disparities

“Experts on Latino issues agreed Wednesday that health care for U.S. Latinos is not what it should be.

“Latino families, just like all other American families across the United States and Puerto Rico, are facing an unprecedented assault on their health care,” Texas State Sen. Leticia Van De Putte said.

Nearly a third of the U.S. Latino population was without health insurance in 2004, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and this shortcoming, fueled by recent immigration reforms, has many Latino leaders talking. The Census also said the uninsured rate for blacks was about 20 percent, and for Asians, the rate was 17 percent. The country’s overall rate was 16 percent.”

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