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To: stockman_scott who wrote (66948)	12/18/2009 12:22:46 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

60 million Americans had no health insurance last year By Jimmy Downs About 60 million people in the United States had no health insurance at some point in time after January 2008, according to survey data released from the Centers for Disease and Control Wednesday. The CDC found 58.4 million lacked health insurance coverage at some point in the year prior to the survey and about 31.9 million did not have any insurance for more than 12 months. About 60 percent of those who reported having no coverage for at least part of that period were unemployed working age adults. Hispanics, men and young adults aged 18 to 24 were more likely than others to lack health coverage, the CDC reported. The survey so called the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics was based on data from 32,694 people who responded from January through June 2009. The health agency found 20 percent of children and adults aged 64 or younger were already covered by government health programs. The number of children in government health insurance programs increase from 34.2 percent in 2008 to 37.4 percent in the first half year of 2009, the survey revealed. Still 8.2 percent of children did not have healthcare coverage, according to the survey report. foodconsumer.org