The US Census Bureau released the recent estimated of the Current Population Survey that revealed Texas on top of the list of people with no health insurance.

According to David Johnson, chief of the Social, Economic and Housing Statistics Division of the Census Bureau, the state has always hold the throne for having the highest uninsured rate in the entire US, Texas Tribune reports.

In an overall note, there were about 48 million Americans which include 6 million Texans that were discovered to be uninsured in 2011 to 2012. On the other hand, for those who have health insurance coverage, those under private coverage remained at 64 percent while the one with Medicare or Medicaid went higher at 32.6 percent by 2012.

Most of the uninsured Texans are composed of adults between 18 and 65 with about a million of children too. In 2012, 19.7 million Texans had some health coverage, 14.5 million under private insurance and 7.3 million by government health aid.

Governor Rick Perry emphasized his strategy to request for the agency to set a waiver which will allow reform to the current program. In his letter to the agency, he said that the waiver should:

"should give Texas the flexibility to transform our program into one that encourages personal responsibility, reduces dependence on the government, reins in program cost growth and efficiently improves coordination of care,"

The state of Texas ranked 8^th in the list of poor regions in the country with 17.2 percent of its population living in poor conditions. That means that in every family of three members, it could only mean $18,500 worth of income for each year.

CBSDFW Local adds that all the data revealed only shows how much the state did not make any improvement on lessening the number of Texans who are uninsured.