<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ted  Schrecker</b> <a href="mailto:tschrecker@sympatico.ca">tschrecker@sympatico.ca</a><br>cross posted from </span><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> Health Affairs [mailto:<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Webmaster@healthaffairs.org" target="_blank">Webmaster@healthaffairs.org</a>] <br>
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<p><strong><b><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Coverage Losses Continued Even As The Economy Improved From 2004 Through 2006 </span></font></b></strong></p></blockquote></td>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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 <em><i><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Health Affairs</span></font></i></em> Web Exclusive study published today.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You can read the study by John Holahan and Allison Cook at <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.healthaffairs.org/alert_link.php?url=http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.27.2.w135&t=h&id=667" target="_blank">http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.27.2.w135</a></span></font></p>

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