Study Finds Most Uninsured Americans Live In The Southwest

Study Finds Most Uninsured Americans Live In The Southwest in Individual Health Insurance

Recently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a first-of-it’s-kind study to compare the number of uninsured residents by region of the country.

The results showed the lowest amount of uninsured citizens lived in the Southwestern part of the United States.

A total of 30 percent of adults under the age of 65 had no health insurance in the Southwest, with 18 percent of children lacking health coverage.

Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma were the lowest performing states — and all together have a higher uninsured rate than anywhere else in the U.S., reported the Associated Press.

In Oklahoma alone, over 33 percent of the state’s residents are uninsured, the CDC study found.

The area in the U.S. with the most insured Americans is in the Northeast. A few states in New England, in particular, have guaranteed issue health insurance — including Massachusetts which requires all residents to have health coverage.

But as we know, that’s also where there are the highest health care costs.

Which states have the lowest uninsured rates? Hawaii and Massachusetts, each with 9.5 percent of their populations without coverage.

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