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By MIKE SCHNEIDER
Associated Press WriterORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Where someone lives makes a difference in whether or not that person has health insurance.
Census data released this week shows a vast geographic inequality in the uninsured that has been shaped by an area’s state laws, population makeup and jobs. Residents in vast swaths of the Southwest are many times more likely to lack health insurance than residents in pockets of the Northeast and upper Midwest.
“Depending on who you are and where you work, you can be very unlucky and not get covered,” said Dr. Bruce Siegel, director of the Center for Health Care Quality at George Washington University. “It’s a completely fragmented system.”
