According to Census.gov as of 2022 3.7 Million black people are uninsured, 196,000 white people are uninsured, and in total 25.94 Million people in the United States do not have health insurance which is 7.9% of all people. 

A large and growing body of work has documented extensive racial and ethnic disparities in both health and health care in the United States (U.S.). For example, racial and ethnic minority individuals are less likely to be insured relative to White, non-Hispanic individuals (Smedley, Stith, and Nelson 2003; Kirby and Kaneda 2010). Such disparities in health insurance coverage may account for some differences in health care access based on race (Lillie-Blanton and Hoffman 2005). However, even when people are insured, disparities in health persist due to lower quality of care, residential segregation, and structural and systemic racism (Smedley, Stith, and Nelson 2003). Identifying ways to reduce these disparities has been a major research and policy priority for several decades (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2020). However, little progress has been made (Mahajan et al. 2021) and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has further laid bare these disparities (Polyakova et al. 2021).