More than 4 million Latinos are predicted to lose their health insurance in the coming decade nationwide, with Florida bearing a disproportionate share of the impact.
According to a new report from UnidosUS, a Latino civil rights organization, an estimated 8.7 million people across the U.S. will become uninsured between 2025 and 2028. Over the next ten years, that number swells to 14 million-and 4 million of them will be Latino.
Florida ranks second nationally, projected to lose 858,000 Latino residents from health coverage. California leads with 917,000.
The report blames cuts in federal funding for Medicaid and Affordable Care Act insurance, totaling more than $1 trillion.
A key finding: while the projections assume coverage loss will be equal across demographics, UnidosUS warns Latinos and other historically marginalized groups will likely suffer much greater losses.
“Unlike major coverage losses of the past…today’s far larger coverage losses are entirely self-inflicted, resulting from policy choices made by Congress and the administration,” said Stan Dorn, director of the Health Policy Project at UnidosUS.
Fear of deportation is also a factor. The number of immigrant parents avoiding public insurance programs out of fear nearly doubled-from 11% to 18%-between 2023 and 2025.