Minnesota and New York are getting to the levels of universal coverage that most European nations have. They are tweaking their systems and prepping waiver requests to extend coverage to currently excluded populations and improve affordability.
We get graphs like the following:
MN Uninsurance at 4.3%-Lowest ever! @kenneygm @larry_levitt @larryrjacobs @publichealthumn https://t.co/O35K66lET9 pic.twitter.com/t8nzrFAKRR
— LynnBlewett (@LynnBlewett) February 29, 2016
And then we have Texas (via the Texas Tribune)
For the first time in more than a decade, Texas’ uninsured rate dipped below 20 percent, analysts said Wednesday following the release of U.S. Census data.
Slightly more than 5 million Texans were uninsured in 2014 — a 700,000 decrease from the year before. That represented a 3-point dip in the percentage of Texans without health insurance, to 19 percent — the largest gain in health care coverage in Texas since 1999, according to the left-leaning Center for Public Policy Priorities….
the Census sampling, known as the American Community Survey, lends new credibility to earlier claims that Texas continues to lead the nation in the raw number — and rate — of people without health insurance.
We have a framework that can reduce the ranks of the uninsured to near OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development — the industrialized countries of the world) standards. It can be implemented and it can work. It mainly requires political elites to give a shit.