{"id":1545087,"date":"2025-07-03T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1545087"},"modified":"2025-07-03T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:45:00","slug":"these-are-the-us-cities-with-the-most-and-least-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/these-are-the-us-cities-with-the-most-and-least-health-insurance\/1545087\/","title":{"rendered":"These Are The US Cities With The Most And Least Health Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"

These Are The US Cities With The Most And Least Health Insurance<\/span><\/p>\n

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In 2023, 92% or 305 million Americans had health insurance, either for some or all of the year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Health insurance coverage varies widely across the country, shaped by differences in state policies, economic conditions, and local job markets.<\/p>\n

This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Kayla Zhu,<\/a> shows the top and bottom U.S. metropolitan areas by share of residents with health insurance, based on data from the\u00a0U.S. Census Bureau<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Data is for 2023 and shows the share of civilian noninstitutionalized population with health coverage, public or private.<\/p>\n

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Cities With the Highest Rates of Health Insurance Coverage<\/h2>\n

In this table, we show the top U.S. metro areas by share of residents with health insurance.<\/p>\n

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Amherst, Massachusetts was the most insured metro area in the U.S. in 2023, with 98.4% of its residents covered under some sort of health insurance.<\/p>\n

The cities with the highest rates of health insurance coverage are mostly concentrated in Massachusetts\u2014one of the top states by\u00a0median income<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0average hourly wage<\/a>\u2014and the Midwest.<\/p>\n

Massachusetts is also one of the most\u00a0highly educated<\/a>\u00a0states, which has shown to have a\u00a0correlation<\/a>\u00a0with health insurance coverage.<\/p>\n

Cities With the Lowest Rates of Health Insurance Coverage<\/h2>\n

Below we show the bottom U.S. metro areas by share of residents with health insurance.<\/p>\n

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Laredo, a border city in Southern Texas was the metro area with the lowest share of residents with health insurance at 70.7%.<\/p>\n

Texas dominates the bottom of the ranking, with 7 of the 10 lowest-coverage metro areas. Many border cities including Laredo, McAllen (74.7%), and Brownsville (76.5%) have some of the lowest rates of insured populations.<\/p>\n

Texas is\u00a0one of 10 states<\/a>\u00a0that did not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n

It also has some of the\u00a0highest<\/a>\u00a0health care insurance costs in the country, which contributes to its relatively lower share of insured residents.<\/p>\n

To learn health care insurance in the U.S., check out this\u00a0graphic<\/a>\u00a0that visualizes life expectancy and health spending per capita across developed nations.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 07\/03\/2025 – 05:45<\/span><\/p>\n

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