Key Facts About Americans Without Health Insurance

One in every six Americans under the age of 65 did not have health insurance (18%) in 2006, for a total of 46.5 million people. As throughout most of the 1990s, the number of uninsured has continued to grow steadily every year since 2000. Between 2000 and 2004,the number of uninsured grew by nearly six million. In the past two years — and despite an improving economy between 2004 and 2006 — the number of uninsured grew by an additional 3.4 million. Reversing years of steady improvement in children’s health coverage, the number of uninsured children grew by one million over the past two years and accounted for a third of the growth in the uninsured in the most recent year, 2006.

Original Source:
Kaiser Family Foundation