Wednesday, Sep 05,2012
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According to new data released by the Utah State Department of Health, a surprisingly large number of Utah residents do not have health insurance.
The Utah Department of Health released a chart with the number and percentage of residents with health insurance recorded since 2001. The data shows that 199,100, or 8.7 percent of Utah residents, did not have health insurance in 2001. Now, in 2011, the number jumped to 377,700 residents, or 13.4 percent of the population.
This increase comes despite recent state healthcare reforms. According to The Salt Lake Tribune, the problem lies in the unaffordability of state health insurance rates. Part-time and self-employed workers without access to employer-subsidized health insurance were twice as likely to be uninsured, while some low-income residents - single people earning less than $14,867 per year - were four times as likely.
Utah residents aged 27 to 34 were the least likely to be insured, with 87,500, or 24.1 percent, admitting a lack of coverage.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the national percentage of uninsured citizens was approximately 16.3 percent, or 50 million individuals, in 2010, the most recent data available.
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