Latinos as healthcare saviors? - An unlikely source may help aging boomers avoid an insurance crisis.

“A tidal wave of aging baby boomers is crashing down on our already troubled healthcare system, threatening to overwhelm our operating rooms (heart disease is our No. 1 cause of death) and bankrupt insurers that will have to pay for lengthy recoveries from cancer and strokes (our No. 2 and No. 3 causes). Is there anything that can help protect California from this healthcare train-wreck scenario?

Yes, here’s one thing that could, if properly understood and applied, help mitigate the approaching crisis: the surprisingly strong health profile of the state’s nearly 14 million Latinos. “

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