44 Million Americans Uninsured In 2006
By: RNS
Updated: June 26, 2007
A survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that close to 44 million Americans had no health insurance throughout 2006. That represents almost 15% of the entire population, including Americans of all ages.
The CDC found that 54-and-a-half million did not have insurance for part of the year.
That is almost 19% of the population.
Still, the numbers are lower than previous estimates.
Among Americans of working age between the ages of 18 and 64, 19.8% did not have health insurance.
Texas was the state with the most people uninsured, with 23-point-eight percent of the population not covered.
