{"id":13735,"date":"2013-12-19T12:01:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=13735"},"modified":"2013-12-19T14:20:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T19:20:13","slug":"map-of-uninsured-shows-north-country-doing-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/12\/19\/map-of-uninsured-shows-north-country-doing-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of uninsured shows North Country doing OK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13743\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/nytimesmap_375.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13743\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13743\" alt=\"Screen image of interactive map of uninsured AMericans by the New York Times\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/nytimesmap_375.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/nytimesmap_375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/nytimesmap_375-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/nytimesmap_375-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen image of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/newsgraphics\/2013\/12\/18\/uninsured-map\/\">interactive map of uninsured Americans<\/a> by the <em>New York Times <\/em>(zoomed in to Canton, NY)<em><br \/><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/newsgraphics\/2013\/12\/18\/uninsured-map\/\">A map released today by the New York Times<\/a> shows, by county, the percentage of people without insurance across the United States. It&#8217;s pretty amazing, and the map shows that the North Country, relatively, is doing pretty well: Unlike other areas throughout the country (particularly it seems in the west and also in Alaska), where up to 40 percent aren&#8217;t insured, we&#8217;re keeping it under 12 percent and, in some areas, as low as 7.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the list of our local counties:<\/p>\n<p>Franklin County has 11.9 percent without insurance;<\/p>\n<p>In St. Lawrence County, 11.3 percent of the population is uninsured;<\/p>\n<p>Lewis county has 10.8 percent uninsured;<\/p>\n<p>10.7 percent uninsured in Washington County.<\/p>\n<p>Warren county has 10.4 percent uninsured.<\/p>\n<p>Herkimer has 10.3 percent;<\/p>\n<p>Essex County has 9.7 percent uninsured.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson County has 9.5 percent uninsured.<\/p>\n<p>In Clinton County, 7.2 percent don&#8217;t have insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Seven percent are uninsured in Hamilton County.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how these numbers change as the Affordable Care Act rolls out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A map released today by the New York Times shows, by county, the percentage of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13325,4803,5650,13528,11673,9846],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13735"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13744,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13735\/revisions\/13744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}