From WalletHub, November 10, 2015

With the third open-enrollment period for health insurance upon us and 11.7 percent of the U.S. population still lacking coverage, the personal finance website WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of 2015’s States with the Highest & Lowest Uninsured Rates.

For the second year in a row, WalletHub’s analysts drew upon the most reliable data to estimate the rates of uninsured pre- and post-Obamacare for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. For a broad perspective of those rates, we broke the national figures down to the state level and other categories, including age, race and income level.

Health Insurance Coverage in Hawaii:

• Obamacare reduced the children’s uninsured rate by 15.29 percent between 2010 and 2014.
• Obamacare reduced the adult uninsured rate by 35.52 percent between 2010 and 2014.
• The uninsured rate for whites is 1.51 percent lower than that for Hispanics.
• The uninsured rate for higher-income households is 57.03 percent lower than that for lower-income households.
• The rate of publicly insured is 30.61 percent.
• The rate of privately insured is 69.39 percent.
• The rate of employer-based health insurance coverage increased by 8.03 percent between 2010 and 2014.
• The uninsured rate pre-Obamacare was 7.89 percent and has fallen to a current rate of 5.27 percent, with 31,653 persons gaining health insurance coverage.