"Everybody has health insurance" is not universal health care. I have health insurance and thousands of dollars of medical debt. And it's good insurance.
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I was about to say, OP is either pushing something or a moron.
More fun to mention 11 “states” at a 5.1% uninsured cutoff, because number 11 is Peurto Rico -- a US territory that you might expect to be less developed. Since people are forced to run javascript to see the list, I’ll copy it here up to the 6% point:
- Massachusetts
- District of Columbia
- Hawaii
- Vermont
- Iowa (what’s a red state doing here?)
- Rhode Island
- Minnesota
- New Hampshire
- Michigan
- New York
- Puerto Rico
- Connecticut
- Pennsylvania
- Wisconsin
- Kentucky (what’s a red state doing here?)
- Delaware
- Ohio (what’s a red state doing here? OH will worsen over time; to be fair they only recently became solidly red)
- West Virginia
…
(22) California (6.5%.. worse than we might expect for CA)
…
(52) Texas ← ha! Of course Texass is last. 16.6% uninsured in the most notable red state showing us how to take care of people
The general pattern is expected.. the bottom of the list is mostly red states.
It's almost like Democrats tend to work to get Healthcare for people, and Republicans tend not to. Weird, I was told all political parties are the same.
I'll also point out Iowa and Ohio are more purplish states, both voted for Obama twice. Ohio still has a democratic senator.
Kentucky also has a democratic governor that ran on expanding Medicaid access.
Republicans tend to work to get more money for insurance and healthcare companies and tell the uninsured to get fucked.
Kentucky is there because of Kynect. When the ACA passed, Kentucky was one of the few red states to create our own state insurance exchange instead of relying on the federal exchange (which in hindsight, is a really fucking funny thing for the other red states to do. I thought they hated relying on the federal government?). At the time, it was lauded as a prime example of how to create and run such an exchange. And despite Bevin dismantling it when he was elected, our current governor made sure to restart it.
Also, because our governor at the time was a Democrat (Steve Beshear, the father of our current governor) Kentucky took the Medicaid expansion. So we had the money to cover the extra enrollees.
Yeah Massachusetts hardly surprises. They've had a fantastic healthcare program in effect for over a decade. Crazy what you can accomplish when you mass millions of people under a non-profit public entity payer...
Fun fact, Obamacare was modeled on Massachusetts. And you'll never believe who championed it: Republican governor Mitt Romney.
Glad the number has dropped a lot since then. Hopefully it can continue.
Jesus, Texas is high as shit.