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How Race and Ethnicity Affects Those Without Kansas Health Insurance

Existing health disparities among racial and ethnic groups can be exacerbated by disparities in insurance coverage. Figure 14 breaks out the uninsured population by racial and ethnic categories.

Two-thirds of the 340,000 uninsured Kansans are non-Hispanic and white. Although this group comprises the majority of the uninsured, only 10 percent of all non-Hispanic white Kansans are uninsured.

Hispanic Kansans, along with other Kansas residents in minority racial and ethnic groups, are more likely to be uninsured than non-Hispanic white Kansans. Twenty-nine percent of Hispanic Kansans are uninsured and 16 percent of non-Hispanic black Kansans are uninsured. Among those Kansans who report some other race or multiple races on the CPS, 19 percent are uninsured.

Because a relatively high percentage of Hispanic Kansans are uninsured, they constitute a disproportionately large percentage of uninsured Kansans. Only 8 percent of the Kansas population is Hispanic, but they comprise 19 percent of the uninsured population (see Figure 14). One explanation for this disparity may be that Hispanic residents in the United States, especially recent immigrants, are more likely to have low-wage jobs that often do not provide health insurance.