Emails, Scott Daigle, chief of staff, Rep. Donna Howard, June 25, 2015

10:03 a.m.

Texas has the highest rate of uninsured: Numerous articles cite this, including a recent Statesman article: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/texas-lags-behind-the-national-average-in-rate-of-/nmjfB/

And here's a Texas Tribune article: http://www.texastribune.org/2014/09/16/texas-tops-census-list-highest-uninsured-rate/

Texas has highest number of uninsured: Based on a report released by the Episcopal Health Foundation and Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Here's the press release announcing the report: http://news.rice.edu/2014/09/03/survey-number-of-texans-without-health-insurance-drops-under-affordable-care-act/

Relevant text:

Even with nearly 400,000 newly insured adults, the report estimates Texas has now surpassed California to become the state with the highest number of uninsured residents.

Scott M. Daigle

Chief of Staff

State Representative Donna Howard

Texas House District 48

10:15 a.m.

Here's more information from Rice University's Baker Institute in March 2015: http://bakerinstitute.org/research/effects-affordable-care-act-health-insurance-coverage-texas-march-2015/

Despite this improvement, Texas remains the state with the highest percentage of people without health insurance, and for the first time, Texas now has the largest number of uninsured residents in the country.