Nearly 46 million people in the U.S. were uninsured in 2007, 9 million more than in 1994, when health finance reform efforts last gained momentum.
Researchers at the State Health Access Data Assistance Center at the University of Minnesota have included those statistics in a new look at the uninsured released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, N.J.
The percentage of U.S. working people who are uninsured has increased 18%, to 27 million, the researchers report, citing survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau.