U.s. Health Insurance Coverage - 1140 Words

With the development of public health in U.S., the health insurance coverage has benefited most American citizens. But there is a large ethnic minority group in the U.S. which is most likely to lack coverage, Hispanics. Concerning Latinos with health, there is a barrier for Latinos to get health care. Latinos who are not citizens or permanent residents do not have health insurance, even though PPACA legal non-citizen residents will be able to buy insurance. Without health insurance, Hispanics face health disparities that make them suffer with bad health outcomes and having a higher illness rates. However, there is special group which highly requires health care, Hispanic women. National studies indicate, â€Å"Mexican immigrant women tend to†¦show more content†¦By collecting date resources from official and do the analysis, they find that â€Å"this population is also less likely than the native-born population to have access to a regular health care provider due in part to the high cost of such care and partly due to the lack of continuous coverage.† (Brown 991). There is a common situation among them that they are not covered by Medicaid or private insurance. Lack of health insurance reinforce Mexican women to deserve reasonable pre-pregnancy check. In Betancourt’s study, the table 5 also shows that seventy-six percent of Latino women have experienced the barrier of cost. Considering the Hmong’s situation, Lia’s family are also encountering the cost problem. Lia’s parents are in poverty-stricken situation, and they failed to provide her with medical care. It results in pushing Lia in a vulnerable crowd, the disadvantaged child. When they are trying to save Lia by holding a soul-calling party which is Hmong’s traditional treatment method, â€Å"it took the Lee family about a month to save enough money from their welfare checks, and from gifts from their relatives’ welfare checks, to finance a soul ­calling party for Lia.† (Fadiman 10). The timing of prenatal care of most Mexican-origin women is relatively late compared to the pregnancies from other races and a lot of Mexican pregnancies have not received ideal medical care. The cause would be that they are encountering language barrier. In the article â€Å"Prenatal Care Experiences and