title: Health insurance disparities among racial/ethnic minorities in same-sex relationships: an intersectional approach.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We examined disparities in health insurance coverage for racial/ethnic minorities in same-sex relationships.
  
  
  METHODS
  We used data from the 2009 to 2011 American Community Survey on nonelderly adults (aged 25-64 years) in same-sex (n = 32 744), married opposite-sex (n = 2 866 636), and unmarried opposite-sex (n = 268 298) relationships. We used multinomial logistic regression models to compare differences in the primary source of health insurance while controlling for key demographic and socioeconomic factors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Adults of all races/ethnicities in same-sex relationships were less likely than were White adults in married opposite-sex relationships to report having employer-sponsored health insurance. Hispanic men, Black women, and American Indian/Alaska Native women in same-sex relationships were much less likely to have employer-sponsored health insurance than were their White counterparts in married opposite-sex relationships and their White counterparts in same-sex relationships.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Differences in coverage by relationship type and race/ethnicity may worsen over time as states follow different paths to implementing health care reform and same-sex marriage.
authors.affiliation: Gilbert Gonzales is with the Division of Health Policy and Management and the State Health Access Data Assistance Center, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Kasim Ortiz is with the Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
authors.forename: Gilbert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gonzales
authors.forename: Kasim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ortiz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D035082:Federal Government; D005260:Female; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D020010:Heterosexuality; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000639:trends*; D008875:Middle Aged; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012847:Single Person; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States