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States With The Worst Health Insurance Coverage
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28/states-with-the-worst-hea_n_1635318.html
States With The Worst Health Insurance Coverage
Lacking health insurance has devastated the lives of many in recent years. In 2010 alone, roughly 26,000 Americans prematurely died because they did not have health insurance, according to a recent report by the health care advocacy group Families USA.
The individual mandate, upheld by the Supreme Court on Thursday, will have massive consequences for the entire country -- and some states in particular.
The degree to which states suffer with a lack of health insurance varies widely. In many southern states, more than one in five residents lack health insurance, according to Gallup. That's much more than in many states in the Northeast, where fewer than one in ten have no insurance.
Massachusetts, where just 4.9 percent of residents lack health insurance, has the highest percentage covered. The state instituted an individual mandate in 2006 under then-Governor and current leading Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, which inspired the current health reform law that the Supreme Court upheld on Thursday.
States With The Worst Health Insurance Coverage
Lacking health insurance has devastated the lives of many in recent years. In 2010 alone, roughly 26,000 Americans prematurely died because they did not have health insurance, according to a recent report by the health care advocacy group Families USA.
The individual mandate, upheld by the Supreme Court on Thursday, will have massive consequences for the entire country -- and some states in particular.
The degree to which states suffer with a lack of health insurance varies widely. In many southern states, more than one in five residents lack health insurance, according to Gallup. That's much more than in many states in the Northeast, where fewer than one in ten have no insurance.
Massachusetts, where just 4.9 percent of residents lack health insurance, has the highest percentage covered. The state instituted an individual mandate in 2006 under then-Governor and current leading Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, which inspired the current health reform law that the Supreme Court upheld on Thursday.
Notice a trend with the 9 of the 10 states listed - all run by republicans. California is the exception but then again they had the Gropinator as their governor up until 2 years ago.
Essentially - the people that could benefit the most with ACA are being used as pawns by GOP governors who would love nothing more than to continue to deny these people healthcare.
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