{"id":8721,"date":"2012-06-29T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=8721"},"modified":"2012-06-29T11:14:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T17:14:26","slug":"nearly-20-percent-of-idahoans-dont-have-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/06\/29\/nearly-20-percent-of-idahoans-dont-have-health-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 20 Percent Of Idahoans Don&#8217;t Have Health Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8722\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 606px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/153053\/Texas-Widens-Gap-States-Percentage-Uninsured.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8722\" title=\"6-29 Gallup Health Insurance\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/06\/6-29-Gallup-Health-Insurance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/06\/6-29-Gallup-Health-Insurance.jpg 606w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/06\/6-29-Gallup-Health-Insurance-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Gallup<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click on the map to see Gallup&#39;s full report.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A day after the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling on the Affordable Care Act, let&#8217;s take a look at the percentage of Idahoans who are uninsured, and how Idaho&#8217;s rate compares to other states.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Weeks before the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the health care law, Gallup released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/153053\/Texas-Widens-Gap-States-Percentage-Uninsured.aspx#1\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.\u00a0 It shows that just over 17 percent of people in the U.S. did not have health insurance last year, up from 14.8 percent in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>In Idaho, the percentage of people who lack health insurance is consistently higher.\u00a0 The state&#8217;s uninsured rate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/153053\/Texas-Widens-Gap-States-Percentage-Uninsured.aspx#2\" target=\"_blank\">stood at 19.3 percent in 2011<\/a>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s down from 21.4 percent in 2009, but up from 17.8 percent in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho&#8217;s uninsured rate puts it among the 15 states with the highest rates of people who don&#8217;t have health insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling on the Affordable Care Act, let&#8217;s take a look at the percentage of Idahoans who are uninsured, and how Idaho&#8217;s rate compares to other states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":8722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[119],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}