Friday, June 23, 2006
Approximately 41.3 million U.S. residents, or 14.2%, of the U.S. inhabitants, had no health insurance in 2005 at a precise point in time, representing a small development over 2004, according to a study published on Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics, Reuters reports (Reuters, 6/21). Study results were base on responses from 98,300 U.S. residents. According to the study:
29.2 million individuals, or 10% of the population, had been uninsured for additional than a year at the time of the survey;
51.3 million people had been uninsured for at least part of the prior year (Mufson/Eilperin, Washington Post, 6/22);
About 6.5 million children, or 8.9% of individual's youngsters than age 18, lacked health insurance in 2005; about one-third fewer than eight years earlier, Bloomberg News/Los Angeles Times reports (Bloomberg News/Los Angeles Times, 6/22). In 1997, 15.4% of U.S. adults and 13.9% of U.S. children were uninsured;
Coverage diverse by state, with Massachusetts having the lowest uninsured rate at 6% and Texas having the highest at 24%:
More than 70% of adults and 62% of children had personal insurance coverage; and
Almost 30% of children and 11.5% of adults had some kind of public insurance such as SCHIP, Medicare or Medicaid (Reuters, 6/21).
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