University of Chicago sociology professor Robert Vargas’s new book “Uninsured in Chicago: How the Social Safety Net Leaves Latinos Behind“ takes a deep dive into what keeps Latinos feeling locked out of health care access. LatinoVoicesWTTW
“ takes a deep dive into what keeps Latinos feeling locked out of health care access. Vargas followed 40 Chicagoans, most of them Latino, as they learned about the options available to them under the ACA’s provisions.
“His options were to go to the county emergency room and wait while having these asthma attacks … and he would tell me that he avoided going to the county emergency room out of fear that he was going to die in the waiting room,” said Vargas. “He had another option of going to private university emergency rooms where he could get access to a doctor much faster but then end up with a huge medical bill at the end of it and rack up debt.
Vargas said that one aspect of the Affordable Care Act that he thought yielded positive results was the program’s “health navigators.” Nick’s asthma made him sound like a broken ventilator. It struck as we drove south on Pulaski Road, crossing over Chicago’s sanitary and ship canal on our way to a movie theater. With the downtown skyline visible in the distance, I asked Nick, in the passenger seat, “When you breathe like that, what are you feeling?”Nick pulled a green inhaler from his pocket, gave it a good shake, and inhaled a puff. His crackled breathing only slightly subsided.
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