Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Even though the number of Americans existing in poverty leveled off previous year, the number of those without health insurance rose to more than 46 million in 2005, the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday.
Because of population growth, both the number of people without health insurance and the number of those with coverage grew amid 2004 and 2005.
The number of Americans without health insurance for those full 12 months rose by 1.3 million to 46.6 million, according to the review of 100,000 households. The percentage of people without it augmented to 15.9% last year from 15.6% in 2004.
At the same time, the number who had coverage for the whole year augmented by 1.4 million to 247.3 million in 2005. But the mount wasn't enough to keep the percentage with insurance from declining to 84.1% from 84.4% during that period. The nation's population prolonged to 293.8 million last year from 291.2 million in 2004, according to Census estimates.
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