U.S. News & World Report, February 28, 2017: Health Care Outcomes in States Influenced by Coverage, Disparities
“For instance, Texas has the highest rate of people who are uninsured, at 23.25 percent, though it still ranks higher than some states that expanded Medicaid, including Illinois, Kentucky, Nevada, New Mexico and West Virginia. In non-expansion Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Oklahoma, nearly one in five people remain uninsured. Nationally, the uninsurance rate is under half that. In Massachusetts, it’s 3.92 percent.
The share of people in Texas without health insurance was higher than in any other state in 2015.
But many of these disparities began before Obamacare, experts say.”