One of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's central goals is to reduce the number of uninsured Americans. And while the uninsured rate has dropped to a record low of roughly 13.4 percent nationwide, according to Gallup numbers, rates vary dramatically across states.
Wallethub, a personal finance social network, analyzed data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Census Bureau to determine which states have the best and worst uninsured rates following the implementation of PPACA.
The data are an initial projection of uninsured rates post-PPACA for 43 states and the District of Columbia. Seven states were excluded from analysis due to data limitations, analysts said.
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