Outliers of Uninsurance: Mapping America’s Worst-Insured Counties
Counties with a high number of residents lacking health insurance are more likely to be Native American, Amish, and Hispanic.
Sioux County, N.D. was the site of the 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Most people living there are Native American, and it’s one of the worst-insured places in North Dakota. Seventeen percent of its residents lack health insurance, compared to 11 percent statewide, according to data from the U.S. Census…