The Census has published Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011, which yields the following picture of where the 48.6 million Americans without health insurance live (numbers in thousands):
So almost half live in the south, most of which are red states (opposed to national health care, writ large):
Summary of results of the 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008presidential elections:
Many (but not all) spend the least on health care:
And they are among the states with the worst health outcomes across the nation:
States carried by the Republican in all four elections
States carried by the Republican in three of the four elections
States carried by each party twice in the four elections
States carried by the Democrat in three of the four elections
States carried by the Democrat in all four elections
Source: Wikipedia
They are also many of the poorest states:
Source: The Poorest States of America
Many (but not all) spend the least on health care:
And they are among the states with the worst health outcomes across the nation:
Source: What Our Health Spending Buys Us
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