- Texas — 27.4 percent
- New Mexico — 25.6 percent
- Florida — 24.3 percent
- Louisiana — 23.0 percent
- Mississippi — 22.0 percent
- Arizona — 21.8 percent
- Oklahoma — 21.0 percent
- Nevada — 20.7 percent
- California — 20.4 percent
- Arkansas — 19.8 percent
Here is a list of the bottom 10 states with the lowest percentages of uninsured non-elderly (0-64 years-old) patients from 2006-2007.
- Massachusetts — 8.9 percent
- Hawaii — 9.2 percent
- Wisconsin — 9.6 percent
- Minnesota — 9.9 percent
- Maine — 10.5 percent
- Connecticut — 10.7 percent
- Rhode Island — 10.9 percent
- Pennsylvania — 11.3 percent
- Iowa — 11.4 percent
- District of Columbia — 11.6 percent
Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s At the Brink: Trends in America’s Uninsured (pdf).
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