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Can’t Buy Me Health-Care Access: Qualitative Experiences of U.S.-Born Latinx Adults’ Health Insurance Coverage and Health-Care Use Post ACA

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Latinx persons have lower levels of health insurance coverage than other racial and ethnic groups even after passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Using 182 interviews from the American Voices Project, this study examines how U.S.-born Latinx adults experience health-care coverage and health-care use. Interview data demonstrate that health-care access is insufficient to ensure full health-care use. Health-care use costs are so high that they are insurmountable for Latinx Americans. Wealth and liquid assets constrain and are constrained by health-care use. Family members become a safety net. This study can inform policies and programs aiming to improve equity in Latinx individuals’ health-care access by centering the importance of reducing economic costs of health-care use.

Source: RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

DOI: 10.7758/rsf.2024.10.4.08

Author: Josefina Flores Morales

Institutions: Stanford Medicine, Stanford University

Language: English

Topic: Healthcare Policy and Management

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Good health and well-being, No poverty

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Russian Science Foundation