The Affordable Care Act and African Americans ASPE research brief Robinson, Wilma, author. Finegold, Kenneth, 1957- author. United States. Black or African American Health Insurance Exchanges -- statistics & numerical data Health Services Accessibility -- economics Insurance Coverage -- statistics & numerical data Medically Uninsured -- ethnology The Affordable Care Act includes provisions that will greatly improve the health of African Americans by increasing their access to affordable health insurance coverage and high-quality care. New estimates from RAND suggest that 3.8 million African Americans who would otherwise be uninsured will gain coverage by 2016 through the expansion of Medicaid eligibility and the creation of Affordable Insurance Exchanges. [Washington, D.C.] : Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, April 12, 2012 United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Office of Health Policy, issuing body. Statistics Text Illustrations 1 online resource (1 PDF file (6 pages)) nlm:nlmuid-101666215-pdf 101666215 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101666215 OCLC: 921338577 English United States The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0