The Affordable Care Act has substantially increased the percentage of Latinos who have healthcare coverage, although more than half of Latinos surveyed said they had heard 
little or nothing about the law.
The study, conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University New Mexico, found that only 17% of Latinos now lack health insurance, compared to 28% those surveyed in 2013.
About 87% U.S.-born Latinos said they have health coverage, compared to only 78% foreign-born Latinos.
Despite aggressive outreach to the Hispanic community by the Obama administration, 25% those surveyed said they had heard “nothing at all” about Obamacare, and another 28% said they had heard “not that much” about the law.
While the large majority respondents who had not bought coverage through the federal or state exchanges said they already were insured, 12% said they did not enroll because of the cost of coverage, and preferred to pay the fine.
The survey was conducted by phone between January 29 and March 12 and reached 1,005 Latino adults. The findings have a margin of error plus or minus 3.1%.
