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60 million Americans had no health insurance last year
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admin on 12/18/2009 03:28:00
 
By Jimmy Downs
About 60 million people in the United States had no health insurance at some
point in time after January 2008, according to survey data released from the
Centers for Disease and Control Wednesday.
The CDC found 58.4 million lacked health insurance coverage at some point in the
year prior to the survey and about 31.9 million did not have any insurance for
more than 12 months.
About 60 percent of those who reported having no coverage for at least part of
that period were unemployed working age adults.
Hispanics, men and young adults aged 18 to 24 were more likely than others to
lack health coverage, the CDC reported.
The survey so called the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics was based
on data from 32,694 people who responded from January through June 2009.
The health agency found 20 percent of children and adults aged 64 or younger
were already covered by government health programs.
The number of children in government health insurance programs increase from
34.2 percent in 2008 to 37.4 percent in the first half year of 2009, the survey
revealed.
Still 8.2 percent of children did not have healthcare coverage, according to the
survey report.