The Kaiser Family Foundation’s latest Health Security Watch tracking poll shows that minorities are significantly more worried about healthcare access and costs than whites (56% versus 29%), and people with low incomes are more worried than those with high incomes (59% versus 25%)--disparities that are at or near record highs.
Since Kaiser began tracking in February 2004, nonwhites have expressed higher levels of concern about their health care than whites. However, the March and June 2007 surveys showed record high levels of worry among nonwhites, with nearly six in 10 saying they are very worried about their health care, compared with fewer than three in 10 whites. The gaps between whites and nonwhites were 29 percentage points and 27 percentage points in March and June 2007, which are the largest gaps ever recorded in the survey. Read the report.
