One in four Texans lack health insurance
The U.S. Census Bureau has released its latest American Community Survey (ACS) data, providing a statistical portrait of the characteristics of the nation’s population in 2008. Health insurance coverage was one of three new topics added to the ACS for 2008. The data helps federal officials determine where to distribute more than $400 billion to state and local governments each year.
According to the new snapshot, one in four people in Texas (24.1 percent) lacked health insurance in 2008, the highest rate in the nation. At the other end of the spectrum, fewer than one in 20 Massachusetts residents (4.1 percent) lacked coverage. The survey also showed that the uninsured rate among children ranged from 2.1 percent in Massachusetts to 20.2 percent in Nevada.
To obtain ACS data for the nation, all states and the District of Columbia, all congressional districts, approximately 800 counties, and 500 metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas, visit the American Factfinder online data tool at http://factfinder.census.gov.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau News, September 21, 2009.
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