Hot off the press - the Census Bureau just released the new Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States report.

The report documents disturbingly high rates of lack of health insurance amongst people of color: 10.8% of non-Hispanic Whites are uninsured; 20.5% if African Americans are uninsured; 15.5% of Asian Ameicans are uninsured; 34.1% if Hispanics and Latinos are uninsured.

Interestingly, in a press conference yesterday, the Bureau responded to comments made by other government departments, including the Executive Branch, that Bureau numbers on the incidence of uninsured persons were misleading and “bogus”. The Bureau stated that these statistics represent the “best estimate[s]” possible.