The Tucson metro area has the fourth-highest percentage of people covered by health insurance among 12 peer communities in the West, according to MAP Dashboard, a project of the Economic and Business Research Center at the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management.
Tucson economy: Area ranks high for health-insured
- David Wichner
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