Inflicting mental health and education harm on school children, causing teachers stress, and weakening their effectiveness.
Tag: Health Care
The state has for decades failed to provide affordable coverage opportunities or expand Medicaid to uninsured adults—the health and financial costs to Latino families continue to be disproportionately harmful. Over 3 million Latinos are uninsured, cutting across all areas of employment and occupations. Texas’ purported economic miracle is an absurdity for Latino families.
Partisan and racialized politics are behind Texas’ 15 years of obstruction to address decades of perpetually high uninsurance rates. For Latinos, whose uninsured numbers exceed 3 million, representing 55% of the state’s uninsured, their health and financial hardships are compounded.