Latinos remain wary of Obamacare as deadline looms
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LOS ANGELES, Calif — Ruben
Acosta, a 53-year-old security guard and legal immigrant from Mexico,
shoved his fears aside and made a visit to a school administration
building in Compton on a Wednesday last week because he wanted health
insurance.
“A lot of
Latino people don’t come because they’re afraid,” said Acosta, who
brought his wife and 6-year-old granddaughter, a U.S. citizen, to the
Covered California enrollment event at the Compton Unified School
District. There, people working for the California health care exchange
established by the Affordable Care Act sought to enroll members of the
demographic group with the lowest rate of insurance coverage in America
into the program the president they helped elect said would benefit them
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