On a brighter note, Obamacare reduced the children’s uninsured rate in D.C.by 9.16 percent and the adult uninsured rate by 31.33 percent between 2010 and 2014. For Florida, that translates to 695,899 individuals. WalletHub used Census Bureau data to analyze uninsured rates, and analyst Jill Gonzalez said there’s a marked difference between states that expanded Medicaid and those that did not.
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The state with the lowest uninsured rate is MA, which pioneered healthcare reform, the study found, followed by Vermont, Hawaii, the District of Columbia and Minnesota. The data indicates that, after the implementation of major coverage provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the insurance gains for non-elderly veterans are in sync with positive overall trends as more Americans across the country become insured. For a broad perspective of those rates, we broke the national figures down to the state level and other categories, including age, race and income level.
According to the report, Tennessee’s rate of uninsured residents dropped slightly, from 13 percent to 12 percent, even without expanding Medicaid.
But the uninsured rate for blacks and Hispanics in the state is at 11.2 percent and 17.4 percent, respectively.
The Uninsured: A Primer provides information on how insurance changed under the ACA, how many people remain uninsured, who they are, and why they lack health coverage. But the uninsured rate among heads of family workers also dropped significantly, from 18.1 percent to 14 percent.
“The uninsured rate for higher-income households is 70 percent lower than that for lower-income households”, Gonzalez said. The analysis also compared “red” to “blue” states based on their 2012 presidential election voting records, finding that predominantly Republican states had a higher average rank of uninsured than mainly Democratic states.
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Nationally, the WalletHub study noted a large gap in the uninsured rates for states that adopted Medicaid expansion and those that did not.
