PHA-Exch> USA: Health Isurance Coverage Declined Even As Economy Improved

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ted  Schrecker tschrecker at sympatico.ca
cross posted from  Health Affairs [mailto:Webmaster at healthaffairs.org]











  *Coverage Losses Continued Even As The Economy Improved From 2004 Through
2006 *

  The number of uninsured people in the United States grew by 3.4 million
from 2004 to 2006, even as a resurgent economy raised incomes and lowered
poverty rates, Urban Institute researchers say in a *Health Affairs* Web
Exclusive study published today.

The economy's emergence from recession did not interrupt the rise in
uninsurance dating back to 2000. In fact, on an annual basis, the ranks of
the uninsured grew faster in 2005 and 2006 than they did during the four
years from 2000 through 2004, when a total of 6 million people became
uninsured.

You can read the study by John Holahan and Allison Cook at
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.27.2.w135<http://www.healthaffairs.org/alert_link.php?url=http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.27.2.w135&t=h&id=667>

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