Comments on: Uninsured Hispanics, how many and why? http://www.vitalonehealth.com/blog/uninsured-hispanics-how-many-and-why/ Health Insurance Plans. Healthcare news covered. Mon, 03 May 2010 08:11:38 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bukky Olaoye http://www.vitalonehealth.com/blog/uninsured-hispanics-how-many-and-why/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Bukky Olaoye Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:56:34 +0000 http://www.vitalonehealth.com/blog/?p=285#comment-70 Hi Rudy, you are so right about the need for the community (not just hispanics) to be informed about how to stay healthy. It starts with educating ourselves and our community about the high need for prevention, what it means, how to get started and most importantly how to maintain the art of staying healthy, this way there will be less demand for the sky-high healthcare serivices thus allowing the law of demand and supply to regulate the rates. Availability and affordability when it is needed? Now I think that is where companies and agencies like yours come in. What percentage of our community has access to healthcare? With people loosing their jobs and most of the time along with the insurnace coverage they had through such employments? COBRA, yes but is it affordable? Bottom line we need to keep ourselves and our family as well as the community informed regarding wellness and preventive healthcare so that we can enjoy all that God has blessed us with. Best regards, Bukky Olaoye, CEO/Administrator Hi Rudy, you are so right about the need for the community (not just hispanics) to be informed about how to stay healthy.
It starts with educating ourselves and our community about the high need for prevention, what it means, how to get started and most importantly how to maintain the art of staying healthy, this way there will be less demand for the sky-high healthcare serivices thus allowing the law of demand and supply to regulate the rates.
Availability and affordability when it is needed? Now I think that is where companies and agencies like yours come in. What percentage of our community has access to healthcare? With people loosing their jobs and most of the time along with the insurnace coverage they had through such employments? COBRA, yes but is it affordable?
Bottom line we need to keep ourselves and our family as well as the community informed regarding wellness and preventive healthcare so that we can enjoy all that God has blessed us with.

Best regards,

Bukky Olaoye, CEO/Administrator

]]> By: Rudy Rivas http://www.vitalonehealth.com/blog/uninsured-hispanics-how-many-and-why/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Rudy Rivas Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:21:24 +0000 http://www.vitalonehealth.com/blog/?p=285#comment-66 You bring up some valid points in your short description of a huge problem within the Hispanic population. The reality is that the last census in Ca. was taken in 2007, which yielded an astonishing one in three (33%) of hispanics were un-insured. Today I would feel confident is saying that those numbers are more like one in two (50%) or higher. I started the first Hispanic Health Insurance Agency in America during 1990, so I understand the dynamics working within the hispanic population. First we have apathy when it comes to obtaining wellness care, bottom line most hispanics don't go into a physician for an annual physical or well-ness visits. I should know because within my own family, very few of us ever went to the Dr. (unless we were sick). It starts with an education of healthcare, the importance of eating correctly, the importance of obtaining annual physical examinations. Hispanics are currently like a ship headed toward a big "Iceberg", high incidence of HBP, and diabetes is left un-diagnosed, elevated BMI is leaving many Hispanics an uncertain future. I would like to see an education regarding healthcare start within the school systems, and I would also ask that we as a Nation start reaching out to Hispanics and educate all of them of the importance of diet and excercise, ultimately the bill will fall on all our shoulders to bare. Consider this, if such a huge percentage of hispanics are un-insured and when those folks go into the hospital for care- who is going to be left paying those bill? Guess what we are all going to pay those bills, hispanics and non-hispanics alike. Ultimately it is about saving peoples lives and creating a healthier society where we can all prosper and live. Sincerely, Rudy Lehder Rivas, President & CEO www.HispanicHealthInsurance.com You bring up some valid points in your short description of a huge problem within the Hispanic population. The reality is that the last census in Ca. was taken in 2007, which yielded an astonishing one in three (33%) of hispanics were un-insured. Today I would feel confident is saying that those numbers are more like one in two (50%) or higher. I started the first Hispanic Health Insurance Agency in America during 1990, so I understand the dynamics working within the hispanic population. First we have apathy when it comes to obtaining wellness care, bottom line most hispanics don’t go into a physician for an annual physical or well-ness visits. I should know because within my own family, very few of us ever went to the Dr. (unless we were sick). It starts with an education of healthcare, the importance of eating correctly, the importance of obtaining annual physical examinations.

Hispanics are currently like a ship headed toward a big “Iceberg”, high incidence of HBP, and diabetes is left un-diagnosed, elevated BMI is leaving many Hispanics an uncertain future. I would like to see an education regarding healthcare start within the school systems, and I would also ask that we as a Nation start reaching out to Hispanics and educate all of them of the importance of diet and excercise, ultimately the bill will fall on all our shoulders to bare. Consider this, if such a huge percentage of hispanics are un-insured and when those folks go into the hospital for care- who is going to be left paying those bill? Guess what we are all going to pay those bills, hispanics and non-hispanics alike. Ultimately it is about saving peoples lives and creating a healthier society where we can all prosper and live.

Sincerely,

Rudy Lehder Rivas, President & CEO
http://www.HispanicHealthInsurance.com

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