Roughly 17 percent of all adults in the United States lacked health insurance last year, according to Gallup-Healthways Well Being Index.

But state-by-state, uninsured rates varied significantly.

We've already ranked the five states with the highest lowest uninsured rates. The Lone Star State has the highest uninsured rate in the country — the 28.8 percent of adult Texans lacking health coverage in 2012 is the highest for any state since Gallup and Healthways started tracking insurance coverage in January 2008.

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