Stats Shot: Which States Have the Most Residents Without Health Insurance?

[jmyrlefuller]

http://www.routefifty.com/2015/09/health-insurance-aca-states-healthcare/121151/

by Bill Lucia
September 16, 2015



Among U.S. states, Texas had the highest percentage and greatest number of people without health insurance coverage in 2014, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data released on Wednesday.

Of the roughly 25.9 million people in the Lone Star State, 19.1 percent, or just over 5 million, lacked health insurance last year, according to Census Bureau estimates.

On the other end of the spectrum was Massachusetts, a state that enacted sweeping health care reforms nearly a decade ago. There only 3.3 percent, or about 219,000 of the approximately 6.6 million people in the state, didn't have coverage.

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[Oceander]

Query:  so what?  Just because someone doesn't have insurance does not mean they need it but cannot get it.  It often means that they don't feel they need it and therefore don't want to "waste" money getting it.

[jmyrlefuller]

Query:  so what?  Just because someone doesn't have insurance does not mean they need it but cannot get it.  It often means that they don't feel they need it and therefore don't want to "waste" money getting it.

That was my thought.

It doesn't surprise me that Texas has the highest rate of uninsured, because 1) they have a lot of illegal aliens, and 2) that state is one of the last bastions of American conservatism right now and a high rate of Obamacare resisters should be expected.