More than 240 million people in the United States have health insurance today through a variety of private and public sources. At the same time, however, millions of people lack such coverage, and policymakers have proposed a range of approaches for expanding health insurance coverage. Far from being a static group, the uninsured population is constantly changing: while many people are chronically uninsured, many more are uninsured for shorter periods of time, such as between jobs. This paper uses data from several federally sponsored national surveys to examine the size, demographic characteristics, and dynamics of the uninsured population.
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