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State of the Uninsured
Topic Started: Feb 24 2015, 11:11 AM (123 Views)
Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/24/north-south-divide-obamacare-states_n_6737866.html

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The good news is the uninsured rate in the U.S. has fallen to a record low. The bad news is the benefits of health care reform aren't reaching a large swath of the country.
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According to Gallup, much of the decline can be linked to President Obama's health care reform law, ... But some states' refusal to adapt Obamacare's key provisions are causing a startling gap in uninsured rates across the country.

The states with the highest uninsured rates in 2014 are pretty much all found in the South, the Gallup poll found.
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"States that have implemented two of the law's core mechanisms -- Medicaid expansion and state health exchanges -- are seeing a substantially larger drop in the uninsured rate than states that did not take both of these actions," Gallup announced. ...

... Arkansas and Kentucky -- saw the sharpest declines in their uninsured rates, which fell by 11.1 and 10.6 percentage points, respectively. Both states expanded Medicaid and had implemented state exchanges. ...
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