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changes in health insurance coverage

A recent US Census department report released in August noted some interesting changes in the health insurance habits of Americans. These include:

The percentage of Americans without health insurance was 15.3 percent in 2007 is down from 15.8 percent in 2006 - meaning more of the population is covered by medical insurance.
The number of uninsured was 45.7 million, down from 47.0 million - or 1.3 million less Americans without Health Coverage.
The number of people with health insurance increased to 253.4 million in 2007 up from 249.8 million in 2006 - thats 3.6 million more Americans with health Insurance.
The number of people covered by Private Health Insurance was 202.0 million in 2007 unchanged from 2006.
The number of people covered by Government Health Insurance increased to 83.0 million, up from 80.3 million in 2006 - equal to 2.7 million more people.
The percentage of people covered by Private Health Insurance was 67.5 percent down 0.2 percent from the pervious year.
The percentage of people covered by Employment-based Health Insurance decreased by 0.4 percent to 59.3 in 2007.
The number of people covered by Employment-based Health Insurance , 177.4 million, was not statistically different from 2006.

So, it looks as though there are more people with medical or health insurance but the increase is being covered by the government as Private or Employment Health Insurance schemes decreased slightly.