KFF July 16, 2021
Summary
Health coverage plays a major role in enabling people to access health care and protecting families from high medical costs. People of color have faced longstanding disparities in health coverage that contribute to disparities in health. This brief examines trends in health coverage by race/ethnicity between 2010 through 2019, prior to the onset of the COVID-19, and discusses the implications for health disparities. It is based on KFF analysis of American Community Survey data for the nonelderly population. It finds:
Prior to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), people of color were more likely to be uninsured than their White counterparts. As of 2010, nonelderly Hispanic and American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people had the highest uninsured rates, with...
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