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BARACK OBAMA: FIGHTING HEALTH CARE FOR THE LATINO COMMUNITY – PART 1
January 29, 2010 | 
Author Of the 47 million Americans who are uninsured, nearly 14 million are Latino. Over the past several years,health care costs have increased dramatically, and Latinos are the least likely of all American groups to beinsured. Latinos also suffer disproportionately from diseases such as tuberculosis, diabetes, cardiovasculardisease, breast cancer, and cervical cancer.
Provide Universal Health Care Access and Lower Health Costs: Barack Obama is committed to signing universal health legislation by the end of his first term in office that ensures all Americans have high-quality, affordable health care coverage. His plan will save a typical American family up to $2,500 every year on medical expenditures by providing affordable, comprehensive and portable health coverage for every American; modernizing the U.S. health care system to contain spiraling health care costs and improve the quality of patient care; and promoting prevention and strengthening public health to prevent disease and protect against natural and man-made disasters.
Fight Health Disparities: Tackling minority health disparities is a top priority for Barack Obama. His universal health care plan expands coverage to all Americans, addressing a major cause of health disparities: insurance coverage. The Obama plan promotes research into combating health care disparities, conducts educational and health outreach to minorities, increases the diversity of healthcare professionals, and improves the delivery of health care to minorities. Finally, the Obama plan also requires health providers to inform the public about disparities and take steps to reduce those disparities. In the U.S. Senate, Obama helped write the Kennedy-Cochran-Obama Minority Health Improvement and Health Disparity Elimination Act. This
bill puts new emphasis on disparity research by directing the Department of Health and Human Services to collect and report health care data by race and ethnicity, as well as geographic and socioeconomic status and level of health literacy.
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BARACK OBAMA: FIGHTING COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM FOR THE LATINO COMMUNITY – PART 3
Remove Incentives to Enter Illegally: To remove incentives to enter the country illegally, we need to crack down on employers who hire undocumented immigrants. Barack Obama has championed a proposal with Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA), Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Max Baucus (D-MT) to create a new employment eligibility verification system so employers can verify that their employees are legally eligible to work in the U.S.
Honor our Immigrant Troops: About 69,300 foreign-born men and women serve in the U.S. armed forces, roughly 5 percent of the total active-duty force. Of those, 43 percent – 29,800 – are not U.S. citizens. The Pentagon says more than 100 immigrant soldiers have died in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Barack Obama believes that legal immigrants who have fought for us overseas should have expedited procedures towards citizenship.
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BARACK OBAMA: FIGHTING COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM FOR THE LATINO COMMUNITY – PART 2
Obama joined Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) to introduce the Citizenship Promotion Act to ensure thatimmigration application fees are both reasonable and fair. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services hasdecided to raise fees on applications to as much as $2,400 for a family of four. Obama’s bill reverses large feeincreases for legal immigrants seeking to become citizens and provides grants to states to help promotecitizenship. Another key choke point in the process to becoming a legal permanent resident or a U.S. citizen isthe F.B.I. name/security check. Many law-abiding legal immigrants see their immigration applications delayedby months and often years as the overwhelmed F.B.I. completes their background checks. Obama introducedlegislation that passed the Senate to improve the speed and accuracy of these background checks.
In the most recent immigration debate on the U.S. Senate floor, Obama fought to improve and pass a comprehensive bill. Obama introduced amendments to put greater emphasis on keeping immigrant families together and to revisit a controversial new points system that never received a proper public hearing. Obama will continue to work for a comprehensive bill that fixes our broken immigration system.
Create Secure Borders: Barack Obama wants to preserve the integrity of our borders. He supports additional personnel, infrastructure and technology on the border and at our ports of entry. Obama believes we need additional Customs and Border Protection agents equipped with better technology and real-time intelligence.
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