Madison ranks No. 1 in insurance for children More than four fifths of the children of the state capital of Wisconsin are covered by private health insurance, the best percentage among the 100 largest metropolitan areas nationwide.
Just 17.9 per cent of children in Madison are not covered by private health policies, according to a business case first Buffalo new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Bureau estimates that the Madison area has 123,700 people younger than 18 years. Private insurers cover 101,600 22,100 leaving, or under a government program of insurance or no health insurance of any kind.
Just behind Madison are Honolulu, where only 18.4 per cent of children are not under the auspices of private health insurance, Ogden, Utah, at 19.4 percent, and Minneapolis-St. Paul to 19.9 per cent short. Milwaukee was 38th among the largest metros to 29.4 percent of children are not covered by private insurance.
Two metros Texas on the Mexican border have the worst rates in the country. More than three-quarters of children in McAllen-Edinburg - 77.0 percent - are not covered by private health insurance. The corresponding figure for the area of El Paso was 63.5 percent.
Buffalo ranks 39th among the top 100 markets, 29.7 percent of its children are not covered by private insurers. (The Buffalo area consists of Erie and Niagara Counties.) The median for the entire study group is 31.3 percent short.
Business First analyzed recently released data from the Survey of the Census Bureau American Community, which generates statistics over the years between the decennial head counts of the Bureau.
The following are the 100 largest metropolitan areas, ranked by percentage of children who are not covered by private health insurance. The subways are listed from lowest to highest percentage of people covered under the age of 18 years:
* Madison, Wisconsin, 17.9%
* Honolulu, 18.4%
* Ogden, Utah, 19.4%
* Minneapolis-St. Paul, 19.9%
* Worcester, Massachusetts, 20.4%
* Albany, NY, 20.9%
* Boston, 20.9%
* Bridgeport-Stamford, Connecticut, 21.5%
* Washington, 21.9%
* Poughkeepsie, NY, 22.3%
San Jose *, 22.9%
* Des Moines, Iowa 24.1%
* Omaha, 24.1%
* Hartford, 24.8%
* Salt Lake City, 24.8%
* Virginia Beach-Norfolk, 25.0%
Colorado Springs *, 25.1%
* San Francisco-Oakland, 25.1%
* Cincinnati, 25.2%
* Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 25.5%
* Allentown-Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 25.6%
* Provo, Utah, 26.1%
* Seattle, 26.2%
* Portland, Maine, 26.3%
* Richmond, 26.5%
* Philadelphia, 26.7%
* Baltimore, 26.9%
* Akron, Ohio, 27.0%
* Portland, Oregon, 27.0%
Kansas City *, 27.4%
* St. Louis, 27.4%
* Providence, 27.7%
* Rochester, NY, 27.8%
* Pittsburgh, 27.9%
* Syracuse, NY, 28.0%
* Louisville, 28.1%
* Columbus, 28.3%
* Milwaukee, 29.4%
* Buffalo, 29.7%
* New Haven, Connecticut, 29.7%
* Knoxville, Tennessee, 29.8%
* Grand Rapids, 29.9%
* Raleigh, 29.9%
* Nashville, 30.0%
* Indianapolis, 30.4%
* Dayton, 30.5%
* Cleveland, 30.6%
* Wichita, Kansas. 30.7%
* Denver, 31.0%
* Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 31.1%
* Springfield, Massachusetts, 31.4%
* Columbia, SC, 31.9%
* Las Vegas, 32.1%
* Oxnard-Thousand Oaks, California, 32.1%
* Toledo, Ohio, 32.2%
* Sacramento, 32.5%
* New York City, 32.6%
* Birmingham, 32.7%
* Detroit, 32.8%
* Charlotte, 33.3%
* Boise, Idaho, 33.4%
* Jacksonville, 33.5%
* Chicago, 33.7%
* San Diego, 35.0%
* Charleston, SC, 35.3%
* Austin, 35.7%
* Chattanooga, Tennessee, 35.9%
* Orlando, 36.6%
* Atlanta, 37.0%
* Youngstown, Ohio, 37.2%
* Greenville, SC, 37.8%
Posted on April 3, 2010.
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