ObamaCare a bad fit for Latino community

If the Obama administration wants to provide health-care coverage to Latinos, it needs to make significant changes.

Like every American, Latinos want affordable health-care coverage. But ObamaCare isn’t delivering. If the Obama administration wants to provide health-care coverage to Latinos, it needs to make significant changes.

The reason so many Latinos didn’t enroll in ObamaCare is that the administration didn’t attempt to understand the community’s unique needs and preferences. With open enrollment starting tomorrow, there is no reason to believe these plans will be any more appealing this year.

About one in 20 eligible Latinos in Illinois signed up for an ObamaCare health-insurance plan for 2014. Given that the federal government has already reduced its expectations for ObamaCare enrollment for 2015, and the Quinn administration has stated they don’t have any enrollment goal, we shouldn’t be surprised to see the same disappointment again this year.

Government-dictated rules about what kind of coverage one is required to buy is a bad fit for this community. If lawmakers are serious about addressing health-care access and affordability, they should promote consumer choice and competition in the health-care market to ultimately ensure a healthier, happier society. All Americans deserve quality, affordable health care. The way to make this a reality is to give people choices, not force them into a program that doesn’t work.

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