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In this week’s Kiplinger Letter, the popular business and economic news round-up explores the people behind the 47 million uninsured Americans. Of people in the U.S. without insurance, the breakdown looks like this:
9.2 million of uninsured Americans have household incomes of at least $75,000. According to Kiplinger, some people do not have health problems and don't want coverage. Other people who are uninsured in our country can't get insurance because of preexisting conditions.
7.5 million of uninsured people in the U.S. are between the ages of 19-24 and have no access to healthcare, can’t afford healthcare or don't believe that they need healthcare because they are in good health.
70% of the uninsured are in families with one or more full-time employees. 10% of the uninsured have one or more part-time employee in the family. The rest of the family members are retired or unemployed.
8.4 million of uninsured Americans are eligible for some kind of government program, but are not aware that they are eligible, don’t know how to sign up for a government program or cannot access the documents they need to sign up for the program.
10.2 million of uninsured people in the U.S. are not citizens. 80% of this group are legal residents. Many people in this group have low-income jobs and either cannot afford or do not have access to health insurance.
