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Monday, March 18, 2013

Health Coverage by Race and Ethnicity: The Potential Impact of the Affordable Care Act

One of the key goals of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to reduce the number of uninsured through a Medicaid expansion and the creation of health insurance exchange marketplaces with advance premium tax credits to help moderate-income individuals pay for this coverage. Given that people of color are at disproportionate risk of being uninsured and having low incomes, the ACA coverage expansions could particularly benefit communities of color and advance efforts to eliminate disparities. The Family Kaiser Family Foundation has developed a brief that provides an overview of health coverage by race and ethnicity today to provide greater insight into the potential impacts of the ACA coverage expansions for people of color.

Find a copy of the brief at: http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/upload/8423.pdf

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