nbcconnecticut.com<\/a>. For non-Hispanic whites, blacks and Asians there was no significant change.<\/p>\n\n\nThe number of uninsured in the United States rose by 1.9 million in 2018. Some 27.5 million people \u2014 8.5 percent of the population \u2014 lacked health insurance coverage for the entire year.<\/p>\n\n\n
According to 2014 figures by Open Data Network, the percentage of uninsured Hispanics in Connecticut was 22.90 percent, compared to whites at 6.40 percent. Census data released in September showed the number of uninsured whites in the state was 5.3 percent in 2018. <\/h4>\n\n\n
\u201cSome of the biggest declines in the coverage are coming among Latinos and non-citizens,\u201d Larry Levitt of the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation told the AP. \u201cThese declines in coverage are coming at a time when the Trump administration has tried to curb immigration and discourage immigrants from using public benefits like Medicaid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
The Kaiser Family Foundation tracks trends in health\ninsurance coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n
Fears by immigrants may also play a role in the significant\nincrease in the number of uninsured children in 2018, Katherine Hempstead, a\nsenior health policy expert with the nonpartisan Robert Wood Johnson\nFoundation, told the AP.<\/p>\n\n\n
The uninsured rate among immigrant children who become\ncitizens rose 2.2 percentage points to 8.6 percent in 2018. The increase was\ngreater among kids who are not citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cThere are a lot of kids eligible for public coverage but not\nenrolled because of various things that make it less comfortable for people to\nenroll in public coverage,\u201d Hempstead told the AP.<\/p>\n\n\n
The data \u201csuggest that we are dealing with immigration \u2026\npotentially in some unexpected ways,\u201d health economist Richard Frank of Harvard\nMedical School told the AP. Frank served as a high-ranking health policy\nadviser in the Obama administration.<\/p>\n\n\n
The uninsured rate for foreign-born people, including those\nwho\u2019ve become citizens, rose significantly \u2014 mirroring the shift among\nHispanics, according to the article.<\/p>\n\n\n
Immigrant families often include foreign-born and\nnative-born, Frank said, \u201cand you can imagine the new approach to immigration\ninhibiting these people from doing things that would make them more visible to\npublic authorities,\u201d including applying for government health care programs.<\/p>\n\n\n
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