Six out of 10, or 4.2 million, of those eligible uninsured African-Americans may qualify for Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program or federal tax credits to help cover the cost of health plans purchased through the health insurance exchanges, according to the report. Here are some more key statistics concerning the uninsured African-American population.
1. African-Americans are uninsured at a higher rate (20 percent) than the general, nonelderly U.S. population (16 percent).
2. Twenty-one percent of eligible uninsured African-Americans live in the greater Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and Detroit metropolitan areas, according to HHS.
3. More than half (55 percent) of eligible uninsured African-Americans have family incomes below 100 percent of the federal poverty level, and nearly two-thirds of those people live in states that aren’t expanding Medicaid under the PPACA.
4. If all states expanded Medicaid to cover those earning up to 138 percent of the poverty level, 95 percent of eligible uninsured African-Americans would qualify for tax credits, Medicaid or CHIP.
5. Young adults aged 18 to 35 account for 47 percent of the African-American eligible uninsured population.
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