The CDC survey data released earlier this week provides hope that the ACA can improve coverage rates for Hispanics, a group with persistently high rates of uninsurance.  In the first three months of 2014, the percentage of uninsured Hispanics decreased from 30.3% to 27.2%.  This is particularly hopeful because we know that many more people signed up for coverage after March 2014, so we can expect to see even greater coverage increases in the second quarter of 2014.

While this is great progress in a short time, we still have a lot more work to do to connect the Hispanic community to coverage.  According to this same CDC data, the uninsurance rate among Hispanics (27.2%) is still almost twice as high as it is among non-Hispanic whites (11.5%).  And the uninsurance rate among Hispanic adults age 18-64 is even higher (35.7%) and almost three times as high as the rate among non-Hispanic white adults (13.5%).

See my blog post from last week on how we can fix these low insurance rates among Hispanic parents in particular, and stay tuned for state data about coverage for Hispanic kids that I’ll be sharing in coming weeks.