Study: Longterm uninsured are poor, latino

“People going without health insurance over the long-term are disproportionately poor and Hispanic.

According to newly released federal data, nearly 4 in 10 chronically uninsured Americans under 65 were Hispanic even though they represented just 15 percent of the nation’s non-elderly population.

In contrast, non-Hispanic whites comprised 66 percent of the under 65 population but only 43.8 percent of the long-term uninsured for the entire 2000 to 2003 period, according to the Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.”

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