The number of uninsured adults in the United States continues with one of four adults younger than 65 years of age reporting you without health insurance at some point last year, according to a recent report by the Federal Centers for disease control and prevention.
Based between January and March of this year said you 50 million adults ages 18 to 64 for at least some time while on a survey were according to the report of the previous 12 months not insured.
Among adults in middle-income families - level employees with an income of two to three times the poverty, or between $43,000 and $65,000 per year for a family of four - one in three adults younger than 65 years without insurance was a part of the previous year. Over all, an estimated 59.1 million Americans of all ages had no health insurance for at least part of the year before your interview of 58.7 million in 2009 and 56.4 million in 2008.
"The data cover us to two myths about health care, to expose" the said C.D.C.-Director, Dr. Thomas R. peace."The first myth is that only the poor uninsured deliver half of the uninsured are on the poverty level."
The second myth, Dr. said peace, is that "it is only healthy people who are not insured-, young people are healthy and a choice not to be insured."In fact, he said two of each of the five people without insurance during the previous year suffered from one or more chronic conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure and asthma, and were you far more likely than go insured without care needed.
The study on the basis a C.D.C. analysis of data from the national health interview survey from 2006 to the first quarter 2010, was reported in the November 9 Edition of morbidity and mortality weekly report.
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