As far as health care coverage goes, it's all about location,location, location.

Large discrepancies in health insurance coverage across U.S.metro areas continued in 2012, Gallup reported Tuesday.

Nearly half of adult residents living in theMcAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas, metro area continue to beuninsured — about three times the national average of 16.9 percent.This makes it the U.S. metro area with the highest percentage ofadults lacking health insurance for the second year in a row,according to results from the Gallup-Healthways Well-BeingIndex.

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