Culture
America's Uninsured Belt
The geography of where in the U.S. people lack health insurance is striking.
As the U.S. Supreme Court readies itself to hear oral arguments over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's "individual mandate," a map from Gallup shows us which states have the heaviest concentrations of people without health insurance. Nationally, 17.1 percent of Americans were uninsured in 2011. But that rate is not spread equally across the country. Indeed, there is something of an “uninsured belt” running through much of the deep south and the Sunbelt.
(Click the map for a larger image)