While the Affordable Care Act ushered in huge improvements in access to health care for black and Hispanic adults in the U.S., that progress appears to have stalled, according to new research.
for black and Hispanic adults in the United States, that progress appears to have stalled, according to new research.
Those gains narrowed the gap in insurance coverage between Americans of color and white Americans until 2016. Beginning that year, that progress came to a halt, with the gap increasing slightly for blacks and only decreasing slightly for Hispanics by 2018.The study examined federal survey data between 2013 and 2018 from adults ages 18 to 64, to determine how the ACA affected racial and ethnic disparities in health care.
In this June 26, 2018, file photo, demonstrators hold signs as Democratic leaders speak with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.In addition to examining the rate of uninsured adults, a key measure of health care access, the researchers also looked at Americans who went withoutbecause of cost during the previous year, as well as whether or not survey respondents said they had a regular health care provider.
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