October 27, 2017. KQED News by April Dembosky.- Starting next week, Americans will again be able to shop for health plans under the Affordable Care Act. But a lot of people don’t know that, because the Trump administration slashed the program’s marketing budget. In California, our state-run the marketplace plans to pick up the slack and will focus in particular on wooing Latino consumers. But, it’s going to be a hard sell.
Carlos Santiago is president and chief strategist at Santiago Solutions Group, a research consulting firm. He fears that message could be too simple. "To convince someone that was uninsured to get it for the first time, obviously that message is not going to work, especially not this year," he says. Plus, Santiago continues, the belief that illness won't happen to you is entrenched in Latino culture.
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