National Hispanic Medical Association program forums across the country to inform leaders in health on Creadas opportunities for new health care law at low price.

The “health care reform implementation” Forum will address the new law to reform the health care, the most powerful law in decades to reduce health insurance costs and improve the health of Americans. According to the DRA. Elena Rios, President of the NHMA: “low-cost health care law will transform the way in which health care is given to our Hispanic communities in ways that have not been since the Medicare became law in support of the elderly and Medicaid health care””, for the poor”. He added: “one of the most important changes is the emphasis on more education to prevent diseases targeting Hispanics about how to transform themselves and the communities themselves in a manner have a healthier lifestyle”.

New programmes for health care reform will include millions of federal funds disbursed as grants from prevention to well-being in the workplace, school clinics, and health programmes such as immunization, education on diabetes, obesity, especially childhood obesity. Programs provide quality health care with training in cultural competence and language services for medical practices, hospitals and clinics of health network.

The health care law at low price also provides access to coverage for the care of the health of nearly 34 million Americans who now lack insurance. The Act makes health care more accessible communities underserved by investing in staff and community centres for primary care.

Health care reform law has already made changes in health insurance. The families are now able to keep children until the age of 26 in the family insurance plan, and children not being denied insurance due to pre-existing conditions. Elderly on Medicare enjoy free preventive care and annual controls and tests for detection of cancer, and this year – for the first time – will pay you 50% of the medications prescribed without coverage (doughnut hole).

In addition, according to the new law, small entrepreneurs are now in a position to obtain new tax credits if they offer health insurance to their employees. In some years, small businesses will have a new market with the form of health insurance exchanges, with lower insurance premiums and simpler application forms. Also, bonds will be given to physicians who choose to switch to electronic medical records or fields in underserved areas.

According to the NHMA, latinos are the group that has more to gain from health care bill at a lower price. However, the opportunity is accompanied by huge challenges. For years, latinos have been less likely than the average American get the health care they needed. Hispanics are less likely to have a doctor regularly, compared with the general population, because they have less access to health insurance. Indicators of access to health and national reports show Hispanics to bear the brunt when it comes to health disparities. 50 Percent is more likely to suffer from diabetes and obesity in comparison with the angloamericanos; they are twice as likely to suffer from asthma, and nearly three times more likely to die of HIV/AIDS.

As a national organization that represents Hispanic physicians in the United States.UU., the NHMA wanted – with its “Health Care Reform Implementation” – inform, update and clarify the opportunities that are being available through the new law for physicians, healthcare professionals, organizations of health care, hospitals and community-based agencies.

According the NHMA while more Latino communities remain insured, there will be more demand for health services. New jobs will be created in hospitals and medical practices. There will not only be a growing demand for doctors, nurses, dentists and other health professionals who care for the growing Latino population, but it will generate new jobs with the new subsidy program, with the use of electronic systems for medical records, billing and collection of data in the care of patients, and there will also be further administrative work to follow up the improvement of the quality of services and trends, including spending, anticipated savings, and public reporting. There will be opportunities for new training programs to prepare students for high school and College to meet the needs of a growing healthcare industry.

To date, the NHMA has organized forums “health care reform implementation” in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and Washington, DC. El Paso Forum was organized in partnership with the Southwest Association of Hispanic American Physicians, the Paul l. Foster School of Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, University Medical Center and the Mexico-United States border health Commission.

The National Hispanic Medical Association is a nonprofit in Washington, D.C. which has the mission to empower Hispanic physicians to improve the health of Hispanics with their public and private partners.