PerCent uninsured depends on which state & #s of Hispanics

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The list of "some" states came from a local paper, was attached to the main linked article, but doesn't appear in the link for who-knows-reason.

Governor GOODHAIR's Texas, of which he brags, "What recession?!1" because of no-income-tax and fatcat-corporation-friendly-policies ranks at the top-- in DEFICIENCIES, that is --as in ALL social services/education issues. Just sayin'.


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_re_us/us_census_health_insurance

Geography makes difference in health coverage

By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press Writer

.... Census data released this week shows a vast geographic inequality in the uninsured that has been shaped by an area's state laws, population makeup and jobs. Residents in vast swaths of the Southwest are many times more likely to lack health insurance than residents in pockets of the Northeast and upper Midwest. ,,,,

Of the nation's 435 congressional districts, Texas districts topped the list with the highest percentage of uninsured residents, while the lowest percentage of the uninsured were in congressional districts in Massachusetts, which in 2006 legislated near-universal health insurance. ...

Eligibility for Medicaid, the federal health program for poor families managed by states, varies between states: Some are more generous than others. In Massachusetts' case, lawmakers mandated that virtually everyone in the state be insured or face steadily increasing fines, dropping the percentage of uninsured to 4.1 percent.

An Associated Press statistical analysis showed that a county's percentage of residents without health insurance was influenced by its percentage of Hispanics; the percentage of residents ages 20 to 24 and 60 to 64; and the percentage of residents working in farming, fishing, hunting, mining, construction, real estate, support positions such as secretary or janitor and hotel and food service workers.

Salaries matter too, as well as the presence of government and union jobs. ....


PERCENTAGES OF UNINSURED IN SOME STATES

Texas - 24.3%

New Mexico - 21.4%

Florida - 20.8 percent

Alaska - 20.1%

Oklahoma - 19.5%

Arizona - 18.7%

California - 17.8%

Kentucky - 14.1%

Tennessee - 13.6%

Illinois - 12.8%

Ohio - 11.8%

New York - 11.8%

Connecticut - 9%

Minnesota - 8.7%

Hawaii - 6.7%

Massachusetts - 4.1%

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