- Alaska — +45.4 percent
- Oregon — +44.3 percent
- Nebraska — +41.2 percent
- North Dakota — +38.3 percent
- Utah — +37.5 percent
- Colorado — +35.2 percent
- North Carolina — +34.5 percent
- Illinois — +31.8 percent
- Tennessee — +30.6 percent
- New Jersey — +27.4 percent
Here is a list of the bottom 10 states with the lowest percent change in rate of uninsured non-elderly (0-64 years-old) patients in 2006-2007 compared to the average in 1994/95/96.
- District of Columbia — -33.8 percent
- Massachusetts — -24.6 percent
- Maine — -21.7 percent
- Rhode Island — -15.1 percent
- Delaware — -12.8 percent
- Alabama — -11.8 percent
- West Virginia — -8.2 percent
- California — -6.6 percent
- Arizona — -4.7 percent
- New York — -4.3 percent
Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s At the Brink: Trends in America’s Uninsured (pdf).
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