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Americans are Losing Access to Health Care

43.6 million Americans are without health insurance. (US Census Bureau)

The number of Americans who lack health insurance climbed by 5.7 percent in 2002, the largest single increase in a decade. (U.S. Census Bureau)

72 million Americans had no health insurance for all or part of 2001 and 2002. That's 30% of all Americans under 65. (Families USA, March 2003)

For the second year in a row, the proportion of people who received insurance through an employer fell. (U.S. Census Bureau)

900,000 full-time workers lost insurance in 2002. (U.S. Census Bureau)

After job loss, being uninsured and getting sick is the most common reason people file bankruptcy. (NYU Law Review, 2001)

Middle-income households accounted for most of the increase in the number of uninsured. In households with annual incomes of $25,000 to $74,999, the number of uninsured people rose in 2002 by 7% (1.4 million) to 21.5 million. (U.S. Census Bureau)

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