Comments on: New national data on income, poverty and the uninsured shows recession’s initial effects http://okpolicy.org/blog/poverty/new-national-data-on-income-poverty-and-the-uninsured-shows-recessions-initial-effects/ Oklahoma Policy Institute Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:30:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pleasent surprise: Oklahoma health insurance gains ground for all ages, types of coverage | OK Policy Blog http://okpolicy.org/blog/poverty/new-national-data-on-income-poverty-and-the-uninsured-shows-recessions-initial-effects/comment-page-1/#comment-547 Pleasent surprise: Oklahoma health insurance gains ground for all ages, types of coverage | OK Policy Blog Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:27:08 +0000 http://okpolicy.org/blog/?p=3179#comment-547 [...] As we noted right after the numbers were  released, last week’s Census Bureau report on health insurance coverage provided some unexpectedly good news for Oklahoma. While the nation as a whole saw an increase in the number of uninsured, which has now reached 46.3 million, Oklahoma saw a substantial drop in both its number and rate of uninsured. Using the 2-year averages recommended by the Bureau when reporting state-level data, Oklahoma’s  uninsured rate for  persons of all ages fell from 18.3 percent in 2006-07 to 15.9 percent in 2007-08. The reported number of uninsured Oklahomans declined from 646,000 in 2006-07 to 565,000 in 2007-08. Oklahoma’s  2-year average uninsured rate now exceeds the national average by less than one percentage point (15.3 percent national to 15.9 percent Oklahoma). [...] [...] As we noted right after the numbers were  released, last week’s Census Bureau report on health insurance coverage provided some unexpectedly good news for Oklahoma. While the nation as a whole saw an increase in the number of uninsured, which has now reached 46.3 million, Oklahoma saw a substantial drop in both its number and rate of uninsured. Using the 2-year averages recommended by the Bureau when reporting state-level data, Oklahoma’s  uninsured rate for  persons of all ages fell from 18.3 percent in 2006-07 to 15.9 percent in 2007-08. The reported number of uninsured Oklahomans declined from 646,000 in 2006-07 to 565,000 in 2007-08. Oklahoma’s  2-year average uninsured rate now exceeds the national average by less than one percentage point (15.3 percent national to 15.9 percent Oklahoma). [...]

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