Patricia Guadalupe Columnist

The tira and it pulls continues in the federal Senate to see what will be part of the final version of the legislation on health reform. Between the same democrats there are opinion differences, And even some diccen that the law project does not go to any side if the essential part of a change is included to the current system: a called public option that extends the medical coverage for million residents who at present do not have it. Some senators who do not pay a cent in medical expenses and they never have to hope that hours in an emergency room seemingly should create that the rest of the population of the country the stellar care does not deserve and of quality that legislators receive on account from the people. And although the House of Representatives approved the legislation with a narrow super margin – already with 39 democrats voting in against - the majority that the democrats enjoy in the Senate is minuscule.
The president Obama has said that wants that the Congress finishes everything and sends to him the legislation before the new year, but the democratic leadership says that possibly it should be later, if it is that it is done. Simultaneously whatever happens the undocumented immigrants stay out and the immigrants legally in the country it seems that they would have still to wait five years before taking part in any plan of health, enclosed if they pay it of their own pockets. Since we have said in this space in previous occasions, there are legislators who criticize this politics – between them conferee Luis Gutiérrez, of Chicago, which qualified the position of the White House of giving him the guarantee to this legislation like coward – but there are no enough voices to change it. The legislators make sure that this should be an example for the Latin voters on the importance of going out to vote and to become a force so and so important that it is not possible to ignore.
Meanwhile, a study of the Center of Politics and Economic Studies (CEPR for his initials in English) here in Washington points out that the Hispanic workpeople – both men and women – are the group of major growth in labor trade unions that offer higher salaries and better labor conditions. The studious ones indicate that a major number of persons who earlier were working in hard works of low salaries and difficult conditions considers the trade unions to be the way most indicated for a better economic situation. The trade unions had seen a fall in membership, until one felt the economic crisis. More workers, he says the study, are looking for the safety of a trade union to fight with the insecurity of labor world, and now Hispanic persons shape 12 per cent of trade union, compared with 5 per cent of only a few years ago.