Thread: First of Its Kind Borderless Approach to Health Care for Lat

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March 10, 2006 11:00 AM US Eastern Timezone
Health Net of California and the Mexican Consulate General in Los Angeles Join Forces to Create First of Its Kind Borderless Approach to Health Care for Latino Families
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Health Net:


-- Stephen Lynch, Health Net of California President, and Ruben Beltran, Consul General of Mexico in Los Angeles, introduce Mexi-Plan Program and Health Net Cross Border Individual Family Plan as Part of Major Initiative To Close the Latino Health Care Gap


WHAT:

• Health Net of California and the Consulate General of Mexico
  in Los Angeles will introduce two innovative products
  developed as part of Health Net's Salud con Health Net
  Initiative, which was designed specifically to help address
  the Latino health care gap in California. The Mexi-Plan
  Program and the Health Net Cross-Border Individual Family
  Plan (IFP) are the first cross border health care plans
  available to individual subscribers. The Mexi-Plan Program
  was developed through a unique collaboration with the
  Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles to fit the needs of
  Mexican immigrants. Both plans will provide quality,
  affordable health care for Latino families in Los Angeles,
  Orange and Ventura Counties, as well as in Mexican cities
  that share the border with California.
  
  Although Latinos are the fastest growing middle-income group
  in the United States, they are 2.5 times more likely to be
  uninsured than whites, with a total of 66% of the
  population uninsured. Health Net's Salud con Health Net
  Initiative signifies a major private sector solution to
  address high rates of the uninsured or underinsured in the
  Latino community.

WHO:

• Ruben Beltran, Consul General of Mexico in Los Angeles
  Stephen Lynch, President of Health Net of California
  Ana Andrade, Vice-President of Latino programs,
  Health Net of California
  Health Net Plan Member
  Representative from the Mexican Foreign Ministry
  Mauricio Bailon, Director General of International Affairs
  of the Mexican Secretariat of Health

WHEN/

• Wednesday, March 15, 2006
  WHERE: 10 a.m.
  
  Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles
  2401 West 6th Street
  Los Angeles, CA 90057

VISUALS:

• Health Net of California mobile unit providing free health
  screenings to visitors and families in line to receive
  services at Mexican Consulate.

Contacts
Martha Arevalo PR
Arevalo Sanchez, 626-524-4961
or
Barbara Hodgson, 310-625-7394

http://www.upi.com/HealthBusiness/view. ... 5526-5160r

Health Net offers 'borderless' health plan
LOS ANGELES, March 10 (UPI) -- Health Net of California said Friday it has joined with the Mexican Consulate General to offer "borderless" healthcare.

Health Net said it would introduce two new plans developed as part of its "Salud con Health Net" initiative, aimed at the "Latino health care gap in California."

The new plans are specifically designed for "Mexican immigrants" in Los Angeles, California's Orange and Venture counties, and in "Mexican cites that share a border with California."

The two plans, the Mexi-Plan Program and the Health Net Cross-Border Individual Family Plan -- which were developed with the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles -- are the first "cross border" plans available to individual subscribers, Health Net said.

While Latinos are the fastest growing middle-income group in the United States, they are 2.5 times more likely to be uninsured than whites, with a total of 66 percent of the Hispanic population without healthcare coverage, the insurer said.

I would guess that the Mexican government is not funding this Mexi-plan, American's are.

Interesting.

So are there any other health plans out there that can openly discriminate based on national origin?

I don't expect to see an "Anglo-net" program popping up anytime soon.