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The Clock is Ticking: More Americans Losing Health Coverage

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Topics: Access/Barriers | Employer-Sponsored Coverage | Individual Coverage | Out-of-Pocket | Spending | State Data | Uninsured

This report uses 2008 U.S. Census Bureau data to estimate the number of Americans who will lose health care coverage through 2010.  The report provides state and national estimates.

From the report:

In this turbulent economy, Americans are not only losing their jobs and their homes—they are also losing their health coverage at an alarming rate. The latest data from the Census Bureau indicate that some 45.7 million Americans lacked health coverage in 2007, and economists believe that the situation has only worsened in the intervening months as the economic downturn has taken its toll.

Health reform is needed now more than ever. As health care costs rise, more and more families are priced out of health coverage. Increasing numbers of employers, especially small businesses, are no longer able to offer their employees affordable coverage, or in some cases, any coverage at all. If current economic trends continue, more and more Americans will lose the health coverage they currently have. National experts have predicted that at least 6.9 million more Americans will lose their health coverage by the end of 2010.

In this report, Families USA provides the first ever state-by-state illustration of the number of people who may lose health coverage between the beginning of 2008 (the period immediately after the last Census Bureau report on the number of uninsured) and the end of 2010 (the close of the current 111th Congress).

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Families USA. (2009). The clock is ticking: more Americans losing health coverage.


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