Twenty Percent of Hispanic/Latino Kansans Lack Health Insurance

Twenty percent of Hispanic/Latino people in Kansas were uninsured in 2022, well above 12.7 percent of Black people and 6.2 percent of White people in Kansas, reports the Kansas Reflector. A report from the Kansas Health Institute found that although 52 percent of all uninsured Kansans are white, three in ten Hispanic/Latino Kansans were uninsured. Many factors, including language, income, legal, and cultural issues converge to perpetuate coverage disparities.