Aug 15, 2011 ... By the way, one in four Texans lacks health insurance , the highest proportion in  the nation, thanks largely to the state's small-government approach. Meanwhile,  Massachusetts has near-universal coverage thanks to health reform very similar  to the “job-killing” Affordable Care Act. So where does the notion ...
Jan 1, 2017 ... 4. More Than One in Six Texans Lacks Health Insurance. About nine percent of  Americans lacked health insurance in 2015. The percentage is much higher in  Texas. At 17 percent, Texas is almost twice the national average. It has the  highest percentage of any state, with. Alaska coming in second at fifteen ...
Aug 2, 2011 ... Here's one statistic, though, you won't hear him touting: Texas has the highest  percentage of uninsured people in the country. Twenty-six percent of Texas  residents lack health insurance, compared with a national average that hovers  around 17 percent. That works out to about 6.3 million uninsured Texans, ...
Texas' uninsurance rates, 1.75 times the national average, create significant  problems in the financing and delivery of health care to all Texans. Those who  lack ... The Kaiser Family Foundation reports 84 percent of the uninsured have at  least one family member who works either full-time or part-time in 2014. The  average ...
Notes. The majority of our health coverage topics are based on analysis of the  Census Bureau's March Supplement to the Current Population Survey (the CPS  Annual Social and Economic Supplement or ASEC) by the Kaiser Program on  Medicaid and the Uninsured. The CPS supplement is the primary source of  annual ...
One in four Texans lacks health insurance, the highest proportion in the nation.