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      No health insurance for 886,000 in Louisiana, 618,000 in Mississippi
      Published: Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 9:00 AM 
      By The Associated Press 
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      Life is getting even harder in the nation's poorest states. New census data show those states are Mississippi and Louisiana, with about one in five residents living in poverty and about the same percentage without health insurance.

      View full sizeDaniel Erath, The Times-Picayune archiveSecond-year medical school students were photographed during the white coat ceremony fpr the LSU Health Sciences Center School of Medicine on July 30. 
      And as the states' unemployment rates grew, so did the numbers of people without insurance.

      Roughly 618,000 Mississippi residents and 886,000 in Louisiana lacked any health insurance last year, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday. That's 21.1 percent of Mississippi residents and 20 percent in Louisiana.

      "A lack of insurance definitely decreases access to health care," said Dr. Mary Currier, Mississippi State Health Officer. "And in a state that already has relatively poor access to care anyway, that is not good."

      Mississippi has fewer doctors per capita than any other state, higher infant mortality and more chronic disease, Currier said.








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