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U.S. Uninsured Rate Drops to 13.4% Uninsured rate down nearly four percentage points since late 2013. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The uninsured rate for U.S. adults in April was 13.4%, down from 15.0% in March. This is the lowest monthly uninsured rate recorded since Gallup and Healthways began tracking it in January 2008, besting the previous low of 13.9% in September of that year.
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- About 44 million people in this country have no health insurance, and another 38 million have inadequate health insurance. This means that nearly one-third of Americans face each day without the security of knowing that, if and when they need it, medical care is available to them and their families.
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Most Without Insurance Do Not Pay Hospital Bills: Federal Report On average, uninsured families can only afford to pay in full for approximately 12 percent of hospital stays they may experience – and even higher-income uninsured families are unable to pay for most potential hospital stays, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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By the numbers: Health insurance Story highlights. 1  49.9 million -- The number of uninsured Americans in 2010. 2  15.4% - The percentage of children living in poverty who are also uninsured. 3  95 million -- Number of people in the U.S. covered by government health insurance.
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New U.S. Census Data Show the Number of Uninsured Americans Dropped by 8.8 Million Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) the Census reported that 10.4 percent of the U.S population, or 33 million people, were uninsured in 2014, down from 13.3 percent in 2013.
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- Reprints & Permissions. An earlier version of this story misstated the ability of uninsured Americans to pay their hospital bills. 1  By Richard J. Carson, for USA TODAY On average, uninsured families pay only about 12% of their hospital bills in full, a government study finds. By Richard J. Carson, for USA TODAY. On average, uninsured families pay only about 12% of their hospital bills in full, a government study finds.
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Health Care Statistics in the United States The United States is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not have a universal health care system. Source: Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2010, the percentage of Americans without health insurance was 16.3%, or 49.9 million uninsured people. Source: US Census Bureau. Of the 83.7% of people with health insurance in 2010, coverage was 55.3% employment-based, 9.8% direct-purchase, and 31.0% government funded (Medicare, Medicaid, Military). (Overlap reflects coverage by more than one type of health insurance). Source: US Census Bureau.
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Overview of the Uninsured in the United States: A Summary of the 2012 Current Population Survey Report Income: Uninsured rates were highest for low-income families (25.4% among those with less than $25,000 a year in household income), though many middle-income families were also uninsured: 21.5% among those earning $25,000 to $49,999, and 15.4% among those earning $50,000 to $74,999.
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States Look to Reduce Ranks of Uninsured Drivers Most of the uninsured, however, don’t purchase car insurance because they can’t afford it. The number of uninsured drivers peaked at 29.9 million in 2009 during the Great Recession and then dropped to 29.7 million in 2012, the last year for which data are available.
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The Uninsured After Implementation Of The Affordable Care Act: A Demographic And Geographic Analysis The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated in March 2012 that the ACA would newly insure 30-33 million people, leaving 26-27 million uninsured in 2016.
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Dependent Coverage for Young Adults This left many college graduates and other young adults with no health insurance. And, according to information reported by the Administration: Young adults have the highest rate of uninsured of any age group. About 30% of young adults are uninsured – a rate that is higher than any other age group.
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In U.S., Uninsured Rate Sinks to 12.9% WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The uninsured rate among U.S. adults for the fourth quarter of 2014 averaged 12.9%. This is down slightly from 13.4% in the third quarter of 2014 and down significantly from 17.1% a year ago.The uninsured rate has dropped 4.2 percentage points since the Affordable Care Act's requirement for Americans to have health insurance went into effect one year ago.he uninsured rate declined sharply in the first and second quarters last year as more Americans signed up for health insurance through federal and state exchanges. After the open enrollment period closed in mid-April, the rate leveled off at around 13%.
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KHN Morning Briefing Census Bureau: Americans On Medicaid Steady As Poverty Rises. The number of Americans without health insurance coverage rose to 49.9 million in 2010 from 49 million in 2009, the Census Bureau reported today. The percentage of uninsured -- 16.3 percent -- did not change.
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- Share of uninsured: 20.7 percent Number uninsured: 170,509 State population: 823,852. Share of uninsured: 21 percent Number uninsured: 525,570 State population: 2,504,200. Share of uninsured: 21.4 percent Number uninsured: 138,777 State population: 647,241.
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The Number of Uninsured Americans Is At An All-Time High 1 The percentage of native-born citizens who were uninsured rose in 2005, while the percentage of non-citizen immigrants who lacked coverage was unchanged. Nonetheless, non-citizen immigrantswere far more likely to be uninsured (43.6 percent uninsured) than native-born citizens (13.4 percent).
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The Uninsured in Texas The Uninsured in Texas. Texas is the uninsured capital of the United States. More than 4.3 million Texans - including 623,000 children - lack health insurance. Texas' uninsurance rates, 1.75 times the national average, create significant problems in the financing and delivery of health care to all Texans.
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Number of uninsured Iowans falls 46 percent: data Dec 13, 2016 at 12:26 pm | Print View. The number of uninsured Iowans has dropped by 46 percent since 2010, the year the Affordable Care Act was launched, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data released Tuesday. That means about 132,000 Iowans have picked up coverage who didn’t have it before the ACA, HHS officials said. Nationwide, the uninsured rate fell from 15.5 percent in 2010 to 9.4 percent in 2015, according to the HHS’s figures.
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States Look to Reduce Ranks of Uninsured Drivers In 49 states and the District of Columbia, it’s against the law to drive without car insurance. Nevertheless, more than 12 percent of all U.S. drivers are uninsured. In 2012, the most recent year for which statistics are available, uninsured motorist claims totaled $2.6 billion, a 75 percent increase from the previous decade, according to a recent report by the Insurance Research Council (IRC).
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- Uninsured Motorist Statistics: Data: Percent of drivers who are uninsured: 12.6 %: Percent of car accidents caused by uninsured motorists: 12.5 %: Annual auto damage that goes unpaid for due to uninsured motorists: $28,000,000,000: Percent of uninsured motorists who said they can’t afford insurance: 21 %
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- Families USA, which supports expanded health care coverage, found that about 37% of health care costs for people without insurance — or a total of $42.7 billion — went unpaid last year. That cost eventually was shifted to the insured through higher premiums, according to the group. don't think anybody has any idea about how much they are paying because of the need to cover the health care costs of the uninsured, said Ron Pollack, the group's executive director.
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Facts + Statistics: Uninsured motorists Uninsured Motorists: In 2015, 13.0 percent of motorists, or about one in eight drivers, were uninsured, according to a 2017 study (latest data available) by the Insurance Research Council (IRC). The percentage has been rising since it hit a record low of 12.3 in 2010.
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Health insurance coverage in the United States According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2012 there were 48.0 million people in the US (15.4% of the population) who were without health insurance.
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- MARY AGNES CAREY: Again, you have about 14 million people on the individual market. That represents about 5 percent of everyone who is insured. And of that 14 million, of those who apply, about 20 percent would be rejected based on their health care status.
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Dying from Lack of Insurance It found that the uninsured are 40 percent more likely to die prematurely. And it expanded the age group a bit, estimating that among adults age 18 to 64, there were 35,327 deaths linked to a lack of insurance in 2005. Calculating the estimate without a breakdown by age group increased the figure to 44,789.
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The âgood old daysâ before Obamacare 50 million were uninsured. The cost of health care – and health insurance – was rising so fast that ever-growing numbers of us were winding up in the ranks of the uninsured. Fifty million – one out of every six of us – were uninsured when the Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010. That number was projected to grow by several million more over the coming decade if Congress didn’t pass reform legislation.
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Key Facts about the Uninsured Population Over a quarter of uninsured adults in 2014 (27%) went without needed medical care due to cost. Studies repeatedly demonstrate that the uninsured are less likely than those with insurance to receive preventive care and services for major health conditions and chronic diseases.