Health Insurance Forum

Fifteen percent of Americans lack health insurance

by mahir on 18/06/10 at 11:40 am

The quantity of Americans without health insurance increased in 2009 from the previous year.

There were 46.3 million Americans of all ages that were uninsured last year, according to novel information from the Centers for Disease Control’s National Center for Health insurance Statistics. That figure accounted for 15.4 percent of Americans and noticeable an increase from the previous year’s entirety of 43.8 million, or 14.7 percent of Americans.

The report said that of the 46.3 million without health insurance, more than 6 million were children under the age of 18. In general, 17.5 percent of people under 65 - those who do not meet the criteria for Medicare - and 21 percent of between 18 and 64 lacked health insurance. Nearly 30 percent of juvenile adults, those between 18 and 24, were without health insurance.

The CDC account also said that the numeral of people under 65 without private insurance declined to 62.9 million in 2009. That number was 65.4 million in 2008.

According to a Reuters report, the new health insurance laws passed in March will make bigger health coverage to 32 million Americans who are at present uninsured by the time it’s fully implemented in 2014.