Health Care Reform for Illegal Aliens???

     During the week, The Obama Administration moved forward on immigration reform that allows non-citizen Latinos to purchase American health insurance with their own means.   By addressing the Latino health care issue, President Obama considered the reform a "crucial turning point for healthcare in the Latino community," this community being one of the Democrats' key constituencies.  According to TheHill.com, Latinos are the most affected by the past failure of our health care system.  "Nearly one-third of all Latinos are uninsured, which is the highest of any racial or ethnic group. Latinos have persistently had trouble accessing basic health care, while suffering higher rates of obesity and chronic illnesses like heart disease..."  The President's new health care law, the Affordable Care Act, targets the very issues that prevent Latinos (illegal and legal citizens) as well as many Americans from achieving health care in America."

     Its considered fact that the Latino vote assisted Obama and Biden win the presidential race just two years ago.  Taking that into consideration, were these recent health care provisions created out of desperation or fear of losing the Latino vote in upcoming elections?  It seems to me that Obama's new health care plan has a lot of room for clauses, and voter appealing add-ons.  Not to mention, its just a matter of time before the illegal Latinos that can't pay for their own health insurance will be provided it by the federal government and our tax money.  Whether this new reform has arose from criticisms from some Latino advocates in government, or from Democratic pressure towards appeasing the large Latino vote, I feel that this issue needed to be addressed.