46.3 Million Americans Without Health Insurance CoveragePOSTED: September 14, 2009 at 5:14 pm BY: Administrator |
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As you know, health care is one of the hottest subjects in our nation right now. This chart shows that the number of searches people have done on Google relating to health care has risen sharply since July.
A recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau projected that the number of people without health coverage in the United States increased to 46.3 million in 2008, compared with 45.7 million in 2007.
Here are some more projections:
- The number of citizens covered by private health insurance fell from 202 million to 201 million
- Those with employment-based health insurance fell from 177.4 million to 176.3 million.
- The uninsured rate for native- and foreign-born people stayed about the same, at 12.9 percent and 33.5 percent, respectively, and the number of uninsured non-citizens remained at approximately the same level, 44.7 percent uninsured.
- The number covered by government health insurance jumped from 83 million to 87.4 million.
No matter what your political views, it looks like the Obama administration is spot on when it comes to the number of people going without health insurance. With rising unemployment the numbers for 2009 will likely be even higher.
Please share your views on this important issue. Post your comments below.
