The rate of uninsured Hispanic children fell to a historic low in 2014, but they still represent a disproportionate amount of the nation's uninsured youth, reports Kaiser Health News.
A new study released Friday— co-authored by Georgetown University Health Policy Institute's Center for Children and Families and the National Council of La Raza — found 300,000 Hispanic children gained insurance coverage from 2013 to 2014.
Researchers believe rates improved thanks to provisions in the Affordable Care Act, such as premium subsidies and Medicaid expansion in many states.
Below are five study findings.
1. Hispanic children made up almost 40 percent of the nation's uninsured children in 2014, but represented only 24.4 percent of the under-18 population.
2. The uninsured rate for Hispanic youth fell to 9.7 percent in 2014, reduced by 2 percentage points from 2013.
3. The rate for uninsured U.S. children was 6 percent in 2014.
4. In Medicaid expansion states the rate of uninsured Hispanic youth was 7 percent on average, compared to an average uninsured rate of 13.7 percent in states that did not expand Medicaid programs.
5. Two-thirds of the nation's uninsured Hispanic children lived in Texas, California, Florida, Arizona and Georgia in 2014.