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Health - Health Insurance

According to the NCHS, in 2001, 19.2 percent of non-Hispanic African-Americans under the age of sixty-five had no private health insurance coverage, compared to 11.9 percent of their non-Hispanic white counterparts. More than a third (34.8 percent) of all Hispanics had no insurance, while 17.1 percent of Asians failed to have health insurance. (See Table 6.7.)

In 2001 Medicaid (the federally funded health-care program for low-income people) covered 7 percent of non-Hispanic whites, 20.3 percent of non-Hispanic African-Americans, 15.5 percent of Native Americans/Alaska Natives, and 8.8 percent of Asians under age sixty-five in 2001. Approximately 16 percent of all Hispanics were covered by Medicaid, including 28.5 percent of all Puerto Ricans. (See Table 6.8.)

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