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The Affordable Care Act and African Americans - ASPE
Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation ASPE RESEARCH BRIEF THE Affordable care ACT AND African Americans By: Wilma Robinson and Kenneth Finegold, ASPE Racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care in the United States are pervasive and well-documented. Racial and ethnic minorities still lag behind their non-Latino White counterparts across a range of health indicators, including life expectancy, prevalence of chronic diseases, and access to quality ,2 In addition, individuals from racial and ethnic minority groups make up about one-third of the nation s population, but are at higher risk than the general population of being uninsured, making up over half of the estimated 50 million Americans with no health insurance An estimated percent of African Americans are uninsured.
African Americans, as they experience HIV infections at more than seven times the rate of Whites and nearly half of new HIV infections are among African Americans.18 An estimated 5.5 million African Americans with private insurance currently have access to expanded preventive
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