(Bloomberg) Lagging enrollment in Obamacare among Californias Latinos is spurring a new push into communities to sell the states program face-to-face.
Many low-wage Latinos fear that going on public assistance could harm their efforts to become U.S. citizens, or enrolling could lead to the deportation of undocumented relatives who live with them, according to community activists. At the same time, glitches on the insurance exchange website and a lack of Spanish-speaking counselors on its telephone banks arent helping, they say.
