October 07, 2008
This SHADAC student paper seeks to identify how health insurance coverage trends (public, private and uninsured) changed for Hispanic/Latino children from 1996 to 2005. It finds that Hispanic/Latino children saw significant reductions in the percent of uninsured children from 28.2 percent to 22.0 percent and significant increases in public health insurance from 30.3 percent to 39.6. May 2007.