{"id":11506,"date":"2025-06-24T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/11506\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T19:17:09","slug":"texas-still-has-the-highest-uninsured-rate-in-the-country-new-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/11506\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas still has the highest uninsured rate in the country, new report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas still has the highest uninsured rate<\/a> of any state in the country, beating out the next-highest state by a wide margin, according to a new report.<\/p>\n

The Commonwealth Fund, a foundation that focuses on health care access and policy, published its 2025 report<\/a> on health system performance earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The report ranked Texas second-to-last in overall \u201chealth system performance,\u201d which accounted for the uninsured rate and other factors. Only Mississippi ranked lower.<\/p>\n

Nationwide, the proportion of people without health insurance has fallen over the past decade<\/a>. The Commonwealth Fund attributed that change to \u201cthe Affordable Care Act\u2019s coverage expansions, recent state expansions of Medicaid eligibility, and more affordable marketplace plan premiums.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From 2013 to 2023, Texas\u2019 uninsured rate dipped, too. In 2013, nearly 30% of Texans were uninsured, compared to 21.6% in 2023.<\/p>\n

But the 2023 rate remained high compared to other states. The state with the next-highest uninsured rate, Oklahoma, was at 16.3% in 2023.<\/p>\n

Texas is also among the 10 states that have not expanded Medicaid access under the Affordable Care Act. Medicaid is a joint federal-state program that provides health care coverage to people who have low incomes or meet other program requirements. <\/p>\n

Some Texas lawmakers have pushed for the state to expand Medicaid<\/a>, but the efforts have gained little momentum. That effort again made little headway during this year\u2019s legislative session.<\/p>\n

While the state\u2019s uninsured ranking isn\u2019t new, the impact on Texans can be profound.<\/p>\n

Research shows that people in the U.S. who do not have health insurance are more likely to delay or skip medical care<\/a> and more likely to die from health issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Texas didn\u2019t rank at the bottom of all of the metrics in the report.<\/p>\n

The state was middle of the pack for infant mortality and rates of preventable premature deaths. The state also ranked 27th for the composite category \u201chealthy lives,\u201d which included premature preventable deaths, suicide, smoking, obesity and other factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas still has the highest uninsured rate of any state in the country, beating out the next-highest state…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[210,1141,1142,881,358,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-11506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-public-health","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114739953221395408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}