Nearly 60 Million Went Without Health Coverage In Recent Year

I know about this from first-had experience, because I have been w/o health insurance since 1990, because I can't afford it.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/12/nearly_60_million_went_without.html

By Scott Hensley
December 17, 2009 1:12 pm

How many people in this country are without insurance? About 60 million during all or part of a recent year, according to an estimate just out from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

From interviews by the Census Bureau, the CDC figures 45.4 million people, or 15.1% of the U.S. population of all ages didn't have any health insurance when the question was posed during the first half of 2009. But widen the question ask if people didn't have coverage for any part of the past year and you get to 58.4 million people, or 19.4 percent of the population.