- Tennessee — +64.0 percent
- Alaska — +58.2 percent
- Nebraska: +56.1 percent
- Oregon — +42.3 percent
- Illinois — +40.2 percent
- North Dakota — +39.7 percent
- Arkansas — + 38.1 percent
- North Carolina — +37.3 percent
- Colorado — +35.7 percent
- Louisiana — +31.9 percent
Here is a list of the bottom 10 states with the lowest percent change in rate of uninsured adult men (19-64 years-old) patients in 2006-2007 compared to the average in 1994-1995.
- District of Columbia — -29.3 percent
- Massachusetts — -14.9 percent
- Delaware — -11.7 percent
- Maine — -9.7 percent
- Minnesota — -3.6 percent
- West Virginia — -1.5 percent
- Arizona — -1.4 percent
- Hawaii — -0.7 percent
- Alabama — -0.3 percent
- California — +0.1 percent
Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s At the Brink: Trends in America’s Uninsured report (pdf).
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