US HEALTH INSURANCE
August 1st, 2004
By ALAN OSBORNThe number of American people without health insurance rose by 1.4 million to a record 45 million in 2003 the US Census Bureau reports. This appears due to sharply rising costs for health coverage and a continuing fall-off in the number of workers in employer-sponsored health plans. However the proportion of uninsured people to the total rose only slightly - from 15.2 to 15.6 per cent. This reflected growth in the total population and the addition of 3.2 million more people to government health programmes including Medicare, Medicaid and state ...
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