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Article: Census Bureau adjusts U.S. rate of uninsurance to 44.8 million.(Brief article)
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- The Nation's Health
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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Citing problems with data tabulation, the U.S. Census Bureau in March decreased its estimates of Americans who lacked health insurance in 2005.
The bureau announced that 44.8 million people were uninsured in 2005, or about 15.3 percent of the U.S. population. The original 2005 estimate, released in August 2006, found that 46.6 million people were uninsured, or 15.9 percent of the population. The revision means that 1.8 million more people had insurance in 2005 than previously estimated.
While the revised figures are slightly lower--differing by less than 1 percent--"they nevertheless affirm that the number of Americans without insurance has risen rapidly ...