One of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's central goals is to reduce the number of uninsured Americans. And while the uninsured rate has dropped to a record low of roughly 13.4 percent nationwide, according to Gallup numbers, rates vary dramatically across states.
Wallethub, a personal finance social network, analyzed data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Census Bureau to determine which states have the best uninsured rates following the implementation of PPACA.
"Following the implementation of Obamacare, there's been a lot of talk but not a lot of real information consumers can use to compare states by insurance coverage rates," the Wallethub report read.
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