Census Bureau: Texas Still Tops Uninsured Ranks
Texas still has the highest rate of uninsured in the nation — one in four Texans did not have health insurance in 2011, according to data the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday.
The Census Bureau's American Community Survey found that 5.8 million Texans — 23 percent of the population — did not have health insurance in 2011. That includes 13 percent of children, 22 percent of women, 24 percent of men and 26 percent of the employed workforce in Texas.
Demographers Steve Murdock and Michael Cline at the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas at Rice University issued a ...
Comments (10)
Rick Scott McGuckin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
...because our % of the population that's uninsured is one of if not the highest.
nick pell
I'm pretty sure this is a statistic Texas Republicans are proud of, or at the least are indifferent to.
Richard S. Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Well done reports - should be requirrred reading for County and Hospital District officials.
Mike Douchee via Texas Tribune on Facebook
haha stupid texans keep voting towards a 3rd world country we're not far now, even mexico's got higher insured rates
Samdavis
Wonder how our "Christian" governor fits this fact into his value system?
Liz Theiss
Harris Co. Hospital District has data showing how much taxpayers are on the hook for illegals.If Americans wish to continue subsidizing the "highest rate of uninsured in the nation" it should be voted on directly by the people. Start a letter writing campaign to "businesses" like Perry Homes, David Weekly, Linbeck Butt of HEB sanctuary-bill killing fame and the other titans of Texas campaign finance and see if they can help "insure" the "uninsured". Perhaps they can also finance a state of the art forensic lab for all the untested rape kits in Houston while they are at it.
David Spratt
How many illegal aliens have insurance? I would submit the number to be very close to 0,, considering the number that have automobile insurance seems to be close to that same number.
If you subtract out ,, reasonably,,, 2 million,,,, that lowers the number of Citizens without insurance considerably,,,, and they are the only ones that really count.
Just re-enrolled for ins. Cost per person with $5,000 deductible ,,, roughly $7,000 per year total employee and employer contributions.
Tax for not having ins,,, $750 per person. How many people will purchase policies to comply with Obama Care when the cost is ten times the fine? That number will also be close to 0.
The whole concept of mandating the purchase of insurance is ludacris,,, young people will not buy it at 10 times the cost of paying the fine. Just as with social security ,,,,people not using a product are expected to pay for the ones that do. THEY WILL NOT DO IT !! The whole concept of free health care is flawed and will not work. It will be paid for by increased taxes ,,, as some are starting to find out. The people who can least afford it will be hit with the fines , taxes or penalties. I wonder if families receiving child tax credits will have their fines deducted from their child credits if they do not insure ?
Would be a good start,,,, after all ,,, we must all do our fair share ,,,, right?
Healthy Texan
To compound the problem with uninsured, we don't have enough access to high-quality providers. Legislators could easily solve this problem by allowing advanced practice nurses the ability to work without being tethered to a physician. Forty plus years of peer reviewed research shows that patient quality and satisfaction is equal or superior to that of family practice physicians. However, because many legislators are like hand puppets being controlled by the medical associations, APRNs aren't free to provide the low-cost, high quality care like they do in 35 other states. Until legislators man up and do what is right, Texans will continue to suffer.
gypsy314 ne
That is because all the illegal alien are being counted. What are the real numbers once they are not counted?
Stuart Greenfield
One would hope one of the state's BCS eligible universities could be No. 1 for as many years as the state has been No. 1 in percent of population uninsured.