The Number Of Texans Without Health Insurance Continues To Climb
More than 5 million Texans didn’t have health insurance in 2018, according to figures released today from the U.S. Census Bureau. The year before, about 4.8 million Texans lacked coverage.
The federal agency reports the state still has both the highest number of people without insurance and highest percentage of uninsured people in the country.
Under the Trump administration, Texas’ uninsured rate has ticked up every year. This follows years of progress. After Obamacare went into effect, the rate had been slowly improving to a low of 16% in 2016.
In 2018, though, that rate jumped up slightly to 17.7%. The previous year, the rate was slightly smaller at 17.3%. According to the Census Bureau, about 186,000 fewer Texans had health insurance between those years.
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