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<img src="http://www.texasobserver.org/images/email/emailHeader_top.gif" /><br /> <a href="http://www.texasobserver.org"><img src="http://www.texasobserver.org/images/email/emailHeader_home.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.texasobserver.org/subscribe.php"><img src="http://www.texasobserver.org/images/email/emailHeader_subscribe.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.texasobserver.org/donate.php"><img src="http://www.texasobserver.org/images/email/emailHeader_donate.gif" /></a><img src="http://www.texasobserver.org/images/email/emailHeader_right.gif" /><br /> <h2>Women More Likely to Be Uninsured</h2> <h4>by Dave Mann</h4> <div style="width:594px;"> <p>The uninsured problem in Texas is worse than you thought, at least according to a new study.</p> <p>There are nearly three million low-income women in Texas, and 52 percent of them lack health insurance.<br /><br />That’s the stunning finding of a recent study of women’s health insurance coverage by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the California-based nonprofit that specializes in health care policy studies.</p> <p>The report includes <a href="http://www.kff.org/womenshealth/1613.cfm" title="Kaiser report">a state-by-state breakdown</a>, and the numbers for Texas aren’t pretty. <br /><br />It’s no secret that many Texans lack health insurance. For years, the state has boasted the highest uninsured rate in the nation.  But the Kaiser figures are especially alarming.</p> <p>Women in Texas are more likely than men to be uninsured. Twenty-eight percent of women in Texas lack health insurance. That's the highest rate in the country and far above the national average of 18 percent. (About a quarter of all Texans are uninsured. If 28 percent of women are uninsured, it means the rate for men must be far lower.)<br /><br />For poor women, the prospects are even worse. The 52 percent of low-income Texas women without health coverage is the highest rate in the country. No other state …<br/><br/><a href='http://www.texasobserver.org/contrarian/comments/women-more-likely-to-be-uninsured'>Read the entire article »</a> <br /><br /> http://www.texasobserver.org/contrarian/comments/women-more-likely-to-be-uninsured </div> <br /><br /> <img src="http://www.texasobserver.org/images/email/email_footer.gif" />