Number of Uninsured Rose Last Year
Posted by Stephanie Taylor on August 28, 2007 at 05:57 PM
Troubling statistics on the uninsured from the Los Angeles Times:
The number of Americans without health insurance rose last year from 44.8 million, or 15.3% of the population, to 47 million, or 15.8%, the Census Bureau reported today....Of particular concern, the number of uninsured children rose for the second year in a row, after a long period in which it had been steadily declining, thanks to the expansion of government health coverage. More than 600,000 children joined the ranks of the uninsured in 2006, a change that the Census Bureau called statistically significant.
In both the House and the Senate, Democrats have passed legislation that would provide health coverage to 3 to 5 million more children over the next five years. The Bush administration has threatened to veto both bills.
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