RAND State Statistics recently updated its Health Insurance database, containing health insurance coverage for the U.S., states, and roughly 900 counties. (Areas with less than 65,000 population are excluded). Coverage and non-coverage are broken down by age, gender, race/ethnicity, households, nativity/citizenship, disability, educational attainment, employment, work experience, household income, and poverty status. Data is collected through the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates. Here are some of the highlights.

 

From 2018 to 2019, the number of individuals with no health insurance in the U.S. increased from 28,565,542 to 29,638,672, or 3.8% (See Table 1). Puerto Rico had the largest growth of uninsured individuals during this time at 21.3%, followed by Wyoming (21.3%), Delaware (16.3%), Kentucky (14.1%), and the District of Columbia (11.9%). Virginia had the most significant decrease of uninsured individuals (-10.0%), followed by North Dakota (-4.8%), Alaska (-4.4%), New York (-3.3%), and Alabama (-2.6%) (See Figure 1).

 

Table 1 - Health Insurance, United States, Uninsured, 2018-2019

 

Figure 1 - Health Insurance, United States, Uninsured, 2018-2019

 

During this one-year period, Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islander citizens saw the most significant increase in uninsured individuals, growing 16.3%, from 64,771 to 75,334. Black or African American residents saw the smallest growth in uninsured individuals from 2018 to 2019, growing 0.6% from 4,099,010 to 4,124,039 (See Figure 2).

 

Figure 2 - Health Insurance, United States, Uninsured, 2018-2019

 

From 2010 to 2019, the number of uninsured individuals in the U.S. decreased from 47,208,222 to 29,638,672, a change of -37.2% (See Table 2). All states saw a decrease in individuals without health insurance during this ten-year period. South Dakota had the smallest decrease of uninsured individuals (-10.7%), followed by Texas (-10.9%), Wyoming (-15.4%), Puerto Rico (-17.1%), and Maine (-19.9%). Rhode Island saw the most significant fall of uninsured individuals at -66.1%, followed by Kentucky (-56.3%), California (-56.0%), New York (-55.8%), and West Virginia (-55.8%) (See Figure 3).

 

Table 2 - Health Insurance, United States, Uninsured, 2010-2019

 

Figure 3 - Health Insurance, United States, Uninsured, 2010-2019

 

To compare health insurance coverage in the U.S. from 2010 and 2019, see Figures 4 and 5.

 

Figure 4 - Health Insurance, United States, Uninsured, 2010

 

Figure 5 - Health Insurance, United States, Uninsured, 2019

 

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