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Risk of losing health insurance: does this map help?

Risk of losing health insurance: does this map help?
Risk of losing health insurance: does this map help?
There’s an article and a large map appearing in the NYT today that I’m having trouble interpreting.

The headline for the article reads:

How Many People Across America Are at 

Risk of Losing Their Health Insurance?

Then the map:

But is the number of people in red in each state the number of people who are at “risk of losing their health insurance” or the number of people in a certain age group who enrolled in a certain period? 

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