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One in four uninsured impacts Texas’ fiscal health | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

WHO ARE THE UNINSURED?The Texas Health Institute, a nonpartisan health advocacy group, described them this way in a report that was released in January:

• They work. At least 72 percent live in households where one or more family members work full time.

• They are young. Twenty-three percent are children, and an additional 36 percent are between 18 and 34.

• They are not all poor. Forty percent of families without coverage have incomes of $40,000 a year or more.

• Geography matters. Almost half of the uninsured live in Texas’ five largest urban centers, and Harris County leads the pack with about 1.1 million, according to state estimates.

• Ethnicity matters. Hispanics are three times more likely to be uninsured than whites; blacks are twice as likely.

Please take the time to read the whole article. The chron website is a little messed up today but I am sure they will fix it soon. These are Texans dying from treatable diseases because we can’t step up and fix the broken system. Before you write me that they are all illegal immigrants, they only make up 20% of those that are uninsured. That means 4 out of 5 are American Citizens.

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