Welcome  to  public  health  moment from  the  University  of  Minnesota. The  economy  is  recovering, but  the  percentage  of  Minnesotans  without health  insurance  remains  as high  now  as  it  did  two  years  ago. At  the  official  end  of  the  Great  Recession  in  2011, 9.1%  of  Minnesotans  were  without  health  insurance, which  is  unchanged  from  2009. That's  according  to  findings  from the  Minnesota  Department  of  Health and  the  University  of  Minnesota. That's  the  average.  But  Minnesotans  of  color continue  to  have  dramatically higher  rates  of  uninsurance. Kathleen  Call,  Associate  Professor  of Health  Policy  at  the  University  of  Minnesota  explains the  rate  of  uninsurance  for  the  state  as  a  whole  is 9%  where  it's  twice  that  for  African  Americans, almost  twice  that  for  American  Indians, and  it's  26%  among Hispanic  Latino  population  in  the  state. So  that's  a  significantly  higher  rate than  is  true  for  the  state  as  a  whole. The  good  news  is  it  hasn't  been  increasing. But  the  bad  news  is  that's  quite  a  disparity. On  the  bright  side,  a  greater  percentage  of young  adults  now  have  health  insurance  compared  to  2009. Call  believes  this  is  a  result  of state  policy  changes  and  federal  health  reform  that extended  the  age  under  which  young  adults could  continue  to  be  covered by  their  parents  health  insurance. And  we  are  seeing  that  they  are  gaining  access to  insurance  through  the  parents  and  guardians. So  there's  evidence  that  that  law  is actually  making  a  difference  for  that  age  group. So  policies  do  work.