The June report notes that while there are widespread coverage disparities for Latino families, those disparities are accentuated in states where Medicaid expansions have not been adopted. The coverage disparity between Latino parents and non-Latino parents in expansion states is a 15.2-percentage point difference, swelling to a 26.4-percentage point difference in non-expansion states.
The uninsured rate for Latino parents and children in non-expansion states are 38.2 percent and 14.9 percent, respectively — up nearly 20 percentage points for parents and 10 percentage points for children compared to expansion states, according to the report.
Massachusetts holds the lowest Latino parent uninsured rate at 7.7 percent while Tennessee has the highest at 52.5 percent.
The report noted that common beliefs imply language barriers and non-citizenship predominant in non-expansion states lead to lack of insurance, but retorted that the difference between limited English-speaking Latino and non-citizen Latino groups was within 2 percent between expansion and non-expansion states.
