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Article: Health Insurance in America; Numbers of Americans with and without health insurance rise, Census Bureau Reports.
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- September 30, 2002
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M2 PRESSWIRE-30 September 2002-US CENSUS BUREAU: Health Insurance in America; Numbers of Americans with and without health insurance rise, Census Bureau Reports (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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The number of people with health insurance rose by 1.2 million between 2000 and 2001, to 240.9 million, but at the same time the number of uninsured rose by 1.4 million, to 41.2 million, the Commerce Department's Census Bureau reported today.
Meanwhile, an estimated 14.6 percent of the population had no health insurance coverage during all of 2001, up from 14.2 percent in 2000.
"The percentage of people covered by ...