The Obama administration announced $3.2 million in funding to help racial and ethnic minorities enroll in health coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Minority Health said Thursday they were giving 13 organizations — including community health centers and universities — grant awards that would enable them to expand outreach to uninsured minorities. The fall under the Partnership to Increase Coverage in Communities, an initiative devoted to increasing minority enrollment in health insurance.
Enrolling minorities in health coverage has been both a priority and a struggle for the administration. According to government statistics, two out of five Latinos and one out of four blacks are uninsured.
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"Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, more minorities have access to affordable, quality health care coverage, but gaps still exist," J. Nadine Garcia, director of the Office of Minority Health, wrote in a blog post. "Those gaps underscore the need to support increased health insurance enrollment for communities of color. We learned from the first open enrollment period in the Marketplace that to reach minority people, outreach and education must be tailored to these communities."
The second open enrollment period under Obamacare begins Nov. 15.
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