2. The first map shows the 2013 Medicaid eligibility thresholds for working parents of Medicaid-eligible children. (In almost all states, limited-income adults without dependent children are not eligible for Medicaid benefits.) The thresholds are expressed as a percentage of the federal poverty level (FPL), which in 2013 was $23,550 for a family of four. A Minnesota family could earn up to $50,633 (215% of FPL) and the parents would still qualify for Medicaid benefits, while the same family living in Texas would be ineligible if they earned more than $5,888 (25% of FPL). The second map shows the percentage of limited-income adults who lacked health insurance in each state in 2011.
1 Data and analysis for this unit are from the following sources: 2013 FPL data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, Federal Register Volume 77, Number 57 (Friday, March 23, 2012); National Federation of Independent Business v.Sebelius, 567 U.S. ___ (2012); Kaiser Family Foundation, “Status of State Action on the Medicaid Expansion Decision, as of June
20, 2013,”
as well as legislative analysis by the author.
* SOURCE: Kaiser Family Foundation, “Adult Income Eligibility Limits at Application as a Percent of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL).”
January 2013, and “Health Insurance Coverage
of the Non-Elderly 0-64,”
** SOURCE: Compiled from U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2012 Annual Social and Economic Supplement,
Health Insurance, Table HI05 (2011, 2010), Table HI A-6.

3. Year
US Uninsured (in percent)
MA uninsured (in percent)
1999
15.5 10
2000 15
9.5
2001 16 9
2002
16.5
10.5
2003 17 11
2004 12
2005
2006 18
2007 6
2008
2009 19 5
2010
18.5
2011 4
2012
2013 13 3
2014