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Nearly 25 Percent of Texas Residents Uninsured, Census Says.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2003
By Roger Yu, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 30--Nearly a quarter of residents in Texas lack health coverage - a larger percentage than in any other state - and the situation has been getting worse, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report to be released Tuesday.
The survey shows 24.7 percent of state residents had no insurance during the two-year period ending last December, reflecting an increase of more than one percentage point from the prior two-year period studied, 2000-01.
Texas also had the nation's highest proportion of uninsured in 2000-01.
Relatively weak social programs, high unemployment, a heavy migrant population and a service-based economy all contributed to the low rate of...
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