Welcome  to  public  health  moment from  the  University  of  Minnesota. Overall,  Minnesota  ranks  high  for the  percentage  of  residents  with  health  insurance. But  Kathleen  Call,  a  professor  and  health  policy  expert at  the  University  of  Minnesota says  that  when  one  looks  closer, you  see  great  disparity. But  as  soon  as  you  start  to  look below  the  surface  and  look  at what  is  the  rate  of  uninsurance among  African  Americans  in  our  community, a  American  Indians  in  our  community, among  Latinos  in  our  community. The  rates  are  really  tremendously  large. We're  talking  an  average  of about  7%  or  8%  for  the  state  as  a  whole, but  when  you  look  at  African  Americans, were  as  high  as  14%  almost double  that  for  American  Indians, about  the  same,  about  18%  in  2007, and  for  Latinos,  it's  about  19%  Paul  says  that  providing healthcare  access  to  the uninsured  will  actually  save  money  in  the  long  term. Anybody  that  doesn't  have  insurance, we  know  that  they  have  much  worse  health  outcomes. They  tend  to  go  in  for services  when  they're  already  quite  sick. And  had  they  been  able  to  go in  for  services  a  bit  earlier, it  would  have  cost  the  system  much less  with  another  public  health  moment. I'm  John  Finnegan.