National Council of La Raza: Policies

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Health Care for All!

As the debate on health care reform progresses, one thing is clear: all Americans, including Hispanics, deserve solutions that provide quality, affordable health care to everyone. Without a system that requires equal and shared responsibility from providers, businesses, health plans, and consumers, families across the nation will be forced to bear the lion’s share of rising costs with less and less access to health care.

For many Latinos and other Americans, addressing this crisis requires policymakers to refine provisions for culturally and linguistically appropriate health care, address the barriers to health insurance that more than 47 million uninsured Americans face, improve the quality of health care, and correct flaws in the system that create health care disparities among racial and ethnic minorities.

Click on the image below to read personal stories from Latinos across the nation or to share your own health care story!

The Latest Resources for Health Care Reform Advocates

Want to know more about the Senate and House health care reform legislation?

New! As Congress races to finish health care reform by spring of 2010, NCLR urges lawmakers to include these top legislative priorities in order to ensure that a final bill will create meaningful change for Latinos.
New! Download facts about Latinos and health coverage in your state from our By the Numbers series.
NCLR has released evaluations of both the health care reform bills ( House | Senate) to identify how well each would help Latino families gain access to quality, affordable health coverage and care.
For information at a glance, NCLR compiled two charts ( House | Senate) that allow you to compare how U.S. citizens, legal immigrants, and undocumented immigrants fare.
In addition, we have developed flow charts that show the pathways to coverage for children and legal immigrant adults. Download them here: House (legal immigrant adults | children) Senate (legal immigrant adults | children)

The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), in collaboration with national civil rights and grassroots organizations that include the NAACP National Voter Fund, Campaign for Community Change, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and the United States Student Association, has unveiled television and print ads for health care reform that will run in English and Spanish in Florida, Arkansas, Louisiana, and North Carolina. Watch the television ads at the Health Equity for All webpage in English and Spanish.
NCLR delivered more than ten thousand messages from Latinos throughout the country in support of health care reform that works for all communities to Congress in 2009. See photos from the postcard deliveries.
Need more resources? See the Profiles of Latino Health series, Fast Facts on Latinos (English | Spanish) or immigrants and health coverage (English | Spanish) or the health policy publications list for more information.
Click to sign on to NCLR's health care reform petition: We Can't Afford to Wait!