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Texas residents continue to be the most likely in the United States to lack health coverage, with 27.2% reporting being uninsured in the first half of 2011. At the other end of the spectrum is Massachusetts, where health insurance is required and 5.3% of residents lack coverage. These results are based on 177,237 interviews conducted daily from January through June 2011 as part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.
States with Highest Percentage of Uninsured
1. Texas 27.2%
2. Mississippi 24.5%
3. Alaska 23.5%
4. Florida 22.6%
5. Oklahoma 22.5%
6. California 21.9%
7. Louisiana 21.4%
8. Arkansas 21.0%
9. North Carolina 20.8%
10. Georgia 20.8%
States with Lowest Percentage of Uninsured
1. Massachusetts 5.3%
2. Vermont 9.2%
3. Minnesota 9.4%
4. Connecticut 10.3%
5. Hawaii 10.4%
6. Pennsylvania 10.8%
7. Wisconsin 10.9%
8. Maryland 11.4%
9. New Jersey 11.4%
10. Delaware 12.3%
Cactus Annie said:At least you can all get access to medical care now
by nearly every conceivable measure, Massachusetts citizens live in a better world than citizens of Texas.
Texas - White persons, percent, 2010 70.4%
Massachusetts -- White persons, percent, 2010 80.4%
So now a whiter world is a better world? Oh dear, someone needs to re-enroll in a Diversity Training Group.
That being said, I bet more people migrate from Massachusetts to Texas than vice versa.
Texas
Not exactly true.
Because the US has been and will continue to be a big fat joke until it's doomed.Why can't the US have the same system as Germany?
Cactus Annie said:How so? This all sounds very complicated. Why can't it all be straightforward? They are many countries that use health insurance but if you can't afford it, it's still provided for free by the tax payer. Take Germany as an example. Why can't the US have the same system as Germany? Is it because The US is a larger country? Why can't the UK adopt the German health system as well?
all i know is that the crowd tonight cheered at the thought of letting a 30-year old (perhaps like that woman) without health insurance die should something catastrophic happen to her.
i thought that the cheers for 237 executions was bad. but that was the ghastliest thing i've ever heard in a "debate."
party of life, lol. they only care about fetuses.
party of life, lol. they only care about fetuses.
Our runaway health care costs can be traced by our failure to nationalize health care when the rest of the developed did so in the late 1940’s, enabling them to keep their medical expenses to two thirds of ours, with better results. Social security and Medicare were financially flawed from the day they were launched, and modern day politicians were loath to touch them once they became sacred cows. None of these intractable problems are amenable to a quick fix.
How so? This all sounds very complicated. Why can't it all be straightforward? They are many countries that use health insurance but if you can't afford it, it's still provided for free by the tax payer. Take Germany as an example. Why can't the US have the same system as Germany? Is it because The US is a larger country? Why can't the UK adopt the German health system as well?
Because poor people in America are immoral.
I'm angry. My instincts tell me to find someone to blame. If I followed these instincts, I'd make a great Republican voter.