Given that:

• All persons in the United States should be guaranteed affordable and comprehensive quality health care;
• U.S. health care is in need of comprehensive reform that will deliver cost effective quality care to all persons in the United States throughout their life;
• Health care delivery must ensure the best outcomes for all;
• Long-term care must be adequately addressed;
• Mental health must be at parity with physical health; and,
• Health care reform must be consumer driven.

Health care reform must guarantee:

1. Recruitment, education, and placement of bilingual, bicultural providers throughout the health care system.
2. 2. Consumer and provider representation as well as business and labor representation in the determination of health and mental health benefits, allocation of resources, cost containment, and quality of care standards.
3. Consumer choice and access to health care plans.
4. Expansion of consumer education and health education activities.
5. Elimination of barriers to insurance coverage regardless of health status, gender, or disability.
6. Access to quality health care to all persons and families, regardless of socioeconomic status; including, elimination of legal barriers to coverage for legal immigrants.
7. Improved capacity to deliver primary and preventative care at the community level, and expanded community health delivery and family services networks.
8. Research and policy that fosters personalized medicine; supports decisionmaking between a provider and patient; and, is designed to collect and analyze data to report, at a minimum, findings by race and ethnicity, gender and age.

National Alliance for Hispanic Health – Board of Directors August 27, 2009
Adopted: April 15, 1992. Previously revised July 3, 2007 and August 5, 2002