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Title: The Affordable Care Act, Employed Mexican Americans, and Private Health Insurance Coverage
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Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: In the United States, the lack of health insurance coverage among Hispanics is striking; about 27 percent of the Hispanics age 19-64 were not covered in 2015 by either private or public insurance as compared to 17 percent of blacks and 11 percent of whites (Barnett & Vornovitsky, 2016). Mexican Americans are the largest group in the Hispanic population and account for about 2 in every 3 Hispanics residing in the U.S. (Lopez, 2015). Mexican Americans have the most unfavorable health insurance coverage of any population group in the nation; one in every 3 Mexican Americans age 64 years and under did not have health insurance coverage in 2012 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012). Nearly a fourth of the nation's 46.7 million uninsured population in 2013 were Mexican Americans (Lopez, 2015).
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Authors: van der Goes, David; Santos, Richard
Publisher: American Society of Hispanic Economists
Data Collections: IPUMS Health Surveys - NHIS
Topics: Health, Other, Race and Ethnicity
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