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Historic gains in health coverage for Hispanic children in the Affordable Care Act's first year
Historic gains in health coverage for Hispanic children in the Affordable Care Act's first year
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Schwartz, Sonya, author
Chester, Alisa, author
Lopez, Steven, author
Vargas Poppe, Samantha, author - Contributor(s):
- Georgetown University. Center for Children and Families issuing body.
National Council of La Raza, issuing body. - Publication:
- Washington, D.C., : Center for Children and Families, Health Policy Institute, Georgetown University, January 2016
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Hispanic or Latino
Insurance Coverage -- trends
Child
United States
United States. - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- (1) Uninsurance rates for Hispanic children reached a historic low in the first year that the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) coverage provisions took effect. The number of uninsured Hispanic children dropped by approximately 300,000 children, from about 2 million uninsured Hispanic children in 2013 to 1.7 million in 2014. The uninsurance rate for Hispanic children declined by nearly 2 percentage points from 11.5 to 9.7 percent in the same one-year time period. (2) Hispanic children were much more likely to have health coverage in states that have taken multiple steps to expand coverage for children and parents. In 2014, 20 states had uninsurance rates for Hispanic children that were significantly below the national average. Of these, 16 states covered children in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) above 255 percent of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL, the median eligibility level for children), 18 states provided Medicaid and/or CHIP coverage to lawfully residing children in the five-year waiting period, and 17 states extended Medicaid to low-income parents and other adults. (3) Despite these gains, health coverage inequities for Hispanic children remained. Hispanic children accounted for a much greater share of the uninsured child population (39.5 percent) than the child population at large (24.4 percent) in 2014. These inequities existed even though the vast majority of uninsured Hispanic children were eligible for Medicaid and CHIP, but unenrolled.
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- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (26 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101676135 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101676135