Texas has the highest percentage of medically uninsured of any state in the country and could gain the most from recent national health care reform. Conservative Texas politicians, however, have been the most outspoken against the legislation. Texas is an example of the conflicts that arise when politics and policy clash as powerful special interest groups open their purses.
State Health Score Card
Comparing states with the highest and lowest percentage of uninsured
- 10%
- 10%
- 9%
- 8%
- 5%
- 17%
- 26%
- 23%
- 21%
- 20%
- 20%
- #3
- #8
- #6
- #5
- #2
- NA
- #40
- #33
- #37
- #47
- #31
- 7.9
- 8.7
- 6.7
- 8.3
- 7.4
- 8.7
- 9.7
- 8.5
- 10.4
- 8.5
- 11.4
- 63.1
- 63.7
- 63.1
- 57.2
- 60.1
- 63.8
- 66.5
- 60.7
- 65
- 60.2
- 65.4
- 1
- 7
- 8
- 25
- 3
- NA
- 48
- 49
- 33
- 42
- 45
- $63
- $81
- $45
- $235
- $125
- $86
- $51
- $130
- $65
- $39
- $48
- 15.6
- 14.1
- 15.4
- 19
- 14.9
- 17.2
- 19.3
- 19
- 18.5
- 16.9
- 18.9
