More than three-quarters of the children in McAllen-Edinburg -- 77.0 percent -- are not covered by private health insurance according to recently released data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey. The survey generates statistics during the years between the bureau's decennial head counts.
Sadly, another border city was second to last. The figure for the El Paso area is 63.5 percent.
The nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas where listed according to the percentage of children who are not covered by private health insurance. Here are a few of the Metros listed from the lowest to the highest percentage of uncovered persons under the age of 18:
* San Antonio, 43.7%
* Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla., 44.3%
* Jackson, Miss., 44.5%
* Los Angeles, 44.5%
* New Orleans, 44.8%
* Houston, 45.0%
* Tucson, 45.3%
* Augusta, Ga., 46.0%
* Little Rock, Ark., 46.0%
* Baton Rouge, La., 46.7%
* Bakersfield, Calif., 49.8%
* Lakeland, Fla., 50.7%
* San Juan, P.R., 51.9%
* Fresno, Calif., 56.4%
* El Paso, Texas, 63.5%
* McAllen-Edinburg, Texas, 77.0%
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