{"id":427071,"date":"2017-09-17T18:14:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T00:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=427071"},"modified":"2017-09-17T18:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T00:14:52","slug":"states-uninsured-rate-is-half-what-it-was-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2017\/09\/states-uninsured-rate-is-half-what-it-was-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"State\u2019s uninsured rate is half what it was in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_427079\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 695px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-427079\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/UninsuredByState.jpg\" alt=\"A map of uninsured rates by state.\" width=\"695\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/UninsuredByState.jpg 695w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/UninsuredByState-336x241.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of uninsured rates by state.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The number of New Mexicans without health insurance has dropped by half since 2011, according to a U.S. Census\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/publications\/2017\/demo\/p60-260.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a>\u00a0released Tuesday. (You can go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/content\/dam\/Census\/library\/visualizations\/2017\/demo\/p60-260\/figure8.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Figure 8<\/a>\u00a0to see a graph that shows uninsured rates by state as of 2016.)<\/p>\n<p>Fewer than 1 in 10 New Mexicans had no health insurance in 2016 compared to 2 in 10 in 2011. The drop in New Mexicans without health insurance \u2014 or, put another way, the growth in the number of New Mexicans who do have health insurance \u2014 continues a trend triggered when Gov. Susana Martinez opted in 2013 to expand Medicaid to more New Mexicans. The expansion of the government\u2019s health insurance program for the low-income went into effect in 2014.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module align-left half type-aside\">\n<h3>About this article<\/h3>\n<p>This article comes from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmindepth.com\/2017\/09\/13\/states-uninsured-rate-is-half-what-it-was-in-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Mexico In Depth<\/a>. Sign up for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmindepth.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=1d2ab093d81b992e50978b363&amp;id=9294743d38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>A decade ago, New Mexico struggled with the second-highest rate of residents who did not have health insurance, topped only by Texas.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s report highlights the marked improvement New Mexico has made in relationship to other states in ensuring that more of residents are insured. The Census report found 13 states with uninsured rates higher than New Mexico\u2019s in 2016, although the state remains slightly below the U.S. average.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the states lagging New Mexico in providing health insurance, including Texas and Oklahoma, did not expand Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, the percentage of Americans with health insurance coverage for all or part of 2016 was 91.2 percent, 0.3 percentage points higher than the rate in 2015, the Census report found.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2014, when the Medicaid expansion went into effect, the number of New Mexicans with health insurance has grown. Those without health insurance in 2014\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsd.state.nm.us\/uploads\/PressRelease\/2f473c14ee654f868b5a25b3cfd15a6d\/09.13.2016_New_Mexico_Human_Services_Department_Announces_Nearly_25_Percent_Decrease_in_Uninsured_Rate.pdf.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made up about 14.5 percent\u00a0<\/a>of the population compared to 10.9 percent in 2015. In 2016, the percentage of New Mexicans without health insurance hovered around 9 percent, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer than 1 in 10 New Mexicans had no health insurance in 2016 compared to 2 in 10 in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":427079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[117,107,116],"class_list":["post-427071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-health-care","tag-roundhouse","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}