- Survey shows holes in health insurance coverage, By Noam N. Levey, April 19, 2012, Chicago Tribune: “With the future of the healthcare law emerging as a major campaign issue this fall, a new survey has found that more than a quarter of adults ages 19 to 64 in the United States lacked health insurance for at least some time in 2011. And the vast majority of those people – nearly 70 percent – had been without coverage for more than a year, according to the study by the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund, a leading authority on health policy. The holes in health insurance were a driving force in President Obama’s push for the controversial healthcare overhaul he signed in 2010. Close to 50 million people in America now lack coverage, a number that has been rising as employers eliminate jobs or cut back the health benefits they offer their workers…”
- 1 in 4 Americans without health coverage, study finds, By David Morgan, April 19, 2012, MSNBC.com: “As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders the fate of healthcare reform in the current election year, a study released on Thursday shows that one in four working-age Americans went without insurance at some point in 2011, often as a result of unemployment and other job changes. The study by the Commonwealth Fund polled 2,100 people aged 19 to 64 and found that 26 percent of non-elderly adults went without insurance — a percentage that researchers said equals about 48 million people when measured against U.S. Census data. The Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit organization that analyzes healthcare issues, said that seven in 10 of those who lost insurance spent a year or more without coverage, partly because plans sold on the individual market for health insurance were unaffordable…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty