Thursday, June 22, 2006
WASHINGTON - More than 13 percent of Americans lack health insurance last year, a somewhat lower share than 2004, according to federal statistics published on Wednesday.
The survey, by the National Center for Health Statistics, also stated that 8.9 percent of U.S. children were not covered by health care.
The issue of health-insurance coverage is at the center of an extensive debate over health care in the United States that relies typically on employers to cover workers.
On Wednesday officials in San Francisco said they were pressing in front with plans for funding health care for 81,000 residents who do not have health insurance, at a cost of $200 million a year.
The center's report says that in 2005, 41.3 million Americans, or 14.3 percent of the population, were uninsured when its review was conducted. It said 51.3 million had been uninsured for at least part of the prior year and 29.3 million, or 10 percent, had been uninsured for more than a year.
The study is based on a normal survey of more than 98,300 people
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