Has Obamacare Worked? 10 States With the Most Insurance Coverage

Before President Obama’s Affordable Care Act was passed, Florida had one of the highest rates of people living without health insurance. Those numbers are based on Census figures, and reflect previous Journal stories.

Nevada reportedly saw the largest drop of uninsured children between 2010 and 2014 at a rate of over 7 percent.

MA earned the honor of having the lowest uninsured rate at 3.28 percent. The national uninsured rate is 11.7 percent.

The uninsured rate for higher-income households is 72.72 percent lower than that for lower-income households. Texas’s uninsured rate – more than 19 percent – is the nation’s highest, followed by Alaska, with more than 17 percent, and Florida, with more than 16 percent. The uninsured rate for whites is 36.62 percent lower than that for blacks and 52.93 percent lower than that for Hispanics. For those states that did not expand Medicaid, the average reported rate is over 12 percent. To help answer this question, WalletHub asked a variety of professors to elaborate upon their opinions. OR has the biggest decrease in the uninsured rate. “More recently, it has been successful at increasing coverage for the employed uninsured”. “MA has coverage that is about 98%”, states Ellis. Oregon, meanwhile, experienced the largest absolute difference in its public health insurance rate from 2010 to 2014, while Texas had the largest absolute difference in its private health insurance rate.

“That number now stands at almost 13%, only a year and a half later”. In 2014, 48 percent of uninsured adults said the main reason they were uninsured was because the cost was too high.

Kenneth E. Thorpe, who chairs Emory University’s Department of Health Policy and Management, said he believes that as financial penalties for not getting coverage increase over time, the number of uninsured individuals will continue to decline.