Number of uninsured Americans hits record high - Health - Health care - msnbc.com
In a reflection of the battered economy, the number of people without health insurance rose sharply last year to 50.7 million — an all time high — according to
data released Thursday by the Census Bureau.That pushed the rate of uninsured Americans to 16.7 percent last year from 15.4 percent in 2008, when there were 46.3 million uninsured. It was one of the largest single year increases since the Census starting tracking the figure in 1987.
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