Lack of Health Insurance

"Lack of Health Insurance" measures the percentage of population not covered by public or private health insurance.

Individuals without health insurance have great difficulty accessing the health care system and frequently do not participate in preventive healthcare programs.

Lack of health insurance coverage ranged from just under 9% in Minnesota to 25% in Texas, with the national average being 15.7 percent uninsured, (an increase of 0.1 percent from the 2004 Edition, 0.5 percent from the 2003 Edition and 2.3 percent since 1990).

The Table below ranks each US state by the % of each states uninsured population (from UnitedHealth Foundation study entitled America's Health Rankings 2005)

Rank	State	% Uninsured	Rank	State	% Uninsured
1	Minnesota	8.9%	26	New York	14.2
2	Iowa	9.5	27	Kentucky	14.3
3	Hawaii	9.6	28	Virginia	14.4
4	Maine	10.0	29	Delaware	14.5
5	Wisconsin	10.4	30	Maryland	14.6
6	Kansas	11.1	31	South Carolina	14.7
7	North Dakota	11.2	32	New Jersey	15.3
8	Vermont	11.2	33	Idaho	15.4
9	Nebraska	11.4	34	North Carolina	15.7
10	Ohio	11.4	35	Arkansas	16.4
11	Rhode Island	11.4	36	West Virginia	16.4
12	Connecticut	11.6	37	Oregon	16.5
13	Michigan	11.6	38	Alaska	17.0
14	Massachusetts	11.7	39	Colorado	17.0
15	New Hampshire	11.7	40	Arizona	17.1
16	Pennsylvania	11.9	41	Mississippi	17.1
17	South Dakota	12.0	42	Louisiana	17.2
18	Missouri	12.6	43	Georgia	17.4
19	Washington	13.0	44	Nevada	18.5
20	Alabama	13.5	45	California	18.7
21	Illinois	14.0	46	Montana	19.1
22	Wyoming	14.0	47	Florida	19.9
23	Tennessee	14.1	48	Oklahoma	19.9
24	Utah	14.1	49	New Mexico	21.0
25	Indiana	14.2	50	Texas	25.0

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