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| Signing Up Homeless For Health Care Takes Persistence Posted: 17 Jan 2014 11:08 AM PST Sign in with FacebookSign in with Google+ Be first to contribute Add Videos or PhotosBe first to contribute Add Videos or Photos You’ve contributed successfully to: Signing up homeless for health care takes persistence Thanks! Check out your photo or video now, and look for it in USA TODAY online, mobile, and print editions. Your submission didnt go through. Please try again. Verifying your credentials… We’re experiencing a few technical issues. Try again By submitting you agree to our Terms of Service Your Take contributions have not been reviewed for accuracy by USA TODAY. |
| Correction: Health Overhaul-spanish Story Posted: 16 Jan 2014 10:53 PM PST Spanish speakers are typically the ones who need to sign up for health insurance, said Veronica Plaza, a professor who teaches medical Spanish at the University of New Mexico. They are the ones who could use the support. In New Mexico, the state with the nations highest percentage of Latino residents and where more than 20 percent of the states population goes without health insurance, fewer than 1,000 people total signed up for coverage in October and November. In Florida, federal health officials have not said how many of the states nearly 18,000 enrollees for October and November were Latino, but that group accounts for about one-third of the roughly 3.5 million uninsured people in the state. About 1.2 million people in the state speak only Spanish. Federal officials have said that about 4 percent of calls to a national hotline were Spanish-only as of last month. The Census Bureau said in a 2013 report that 12.9 percent of the nations 317 million people speak Spanish at home, and more than half of those speak English well. Many blame at least some of the enrollment problems on the trouble-plagued site. |
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