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
Posted on: Friday, 10 March 2006, 12:00 CST
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.
Source: Business Wire
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