Census: State Rates for people without Health Insurance

 

 

 It is not clear, to me anyway, why Georgia to our East and Mississippi to our West appear to have a larger number of people under 65 who are uninsured than Alabama. The Washington Post reports:

"...the Census data shows that the rate of uninsured was especially high in a dozen states that have chosen not to expand Medicaid eligibility under the ACA.. Unlike his predecessor, President Biden has been pressing to expand Medicaid in the dozen hold-out states, and congressional Democrats are considering proposals that would allow people frozen out of the program by their state governments to buy private ACA health plans inexpensively."

Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia are among the 12 "holdout states", refusing to expand Medicaid.