Health

1 in 4 people is uninsured!
by Barbora Misakova

Not only state prison numbers drop. A new study found there is also still less insured people living in California. According to the collected date nearly one in four Californians under age 65 lacked health insurance during at least part of last year. Maybe for some of you will these statistics be shocking, but it is better to live in real world, don’t you think? When the University of California compared the figures from the past few years results shocked also researchers. While in 2007 there were 6.4 million of Californians with no insurance, in two last years the number increased 25 percent to 8.2 million uninsured people. As Shana Alex Lavarreda, one of the study&! #8217;s authors told Reuters: “We expected to see some increase, certainly, but one of this magnitude was quite surprising.” As Lavarreda added a system that was straining for long time finally broke in 2009. Increase of people with no insurance is connected with recession. Soaring job losses and also drop in employer-provided coverage were recession’s direct consequences. Working-age adults – between 18 and 65 years, represent group where nearly one in three is uninsured. That makes from California undoubtedly the nation with the highest number of uninsured in any single state. During the past two years, the proportion of Californians covered by state healthcare program increased from 15.3 to 16.5 percent. The study showed that even though federal government offered subsidies to laid-off workers, 62 percent of those who lost their job-based health benefits were forced to seek coverage from other sources or became uninsured.

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