The share of uninsured Hoosiers has dropped in the last decade
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The number of Hoosiers under 65 without health insurance dropped by more than 41% from 2006 to 2022, according to new Census Bureau data.
Why it matters: Just 8.2% of Indiana residents were uninsured as of 2022, a notable improvement over 2006 when the rate was 14.3%.
- Indiana has a lower rate of uninsured residents than across the U.S.. Nationally, the uninsured rate was around 9.5% in 2022, down from 17.8 in 2006.
The big picture: The uninsured rate fell in 627 U.S. counties and increased in only 23 between 2021 and 2022 — meaning Americans are trending toward being covered rather than not.
- Coverage expansions under the Affordable Care Act and social safety net policies enacted during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic are helping reduce the uninsured rate, per KFF.
Yes, but: More recent preliminary data shows an uptick in the overall uninsured rate as states cut Medicaid rolls and unemployment rises, Axios' Maya Goldman reports.
Zoom in: Hamilton (4.6%), Boone (5.1%) and Warrick (5.2%) had the lowest percentages of uninsured Hoosiers as of 2022.
- Marion County surpassed the state average with nearly 80,000 residents uninsured that year, or 9.8% of the population.
Stunning stat: Around 11,500 LaGrange County residents were uninsured in 2022. That's 33.3% of that county's population — the highest percentage of a populous county in the state.
Zoom out: Texas (18.8%), Oklahoma (14.3%), Wyoming (14.1%) and Florida (13.9%) had the highest share of uninsured residents.
- Texas, Wyoming and Florida are also among the small group of holdouts that never adopted Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.
- Massachusetts (2.9%), Washington, D.C. (3.1%) and Hawaii (4.3%) have the lowest.