Survey: Number of uninsured Americans increased in 2019
Roughly 33.2 million Americans, or 10.3 percent of the population, lacked health insurance in 2019, according to new data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The rate is slightly higher than the 30.4 million, or 9.4 percent, who were uninsured at the time they were contacted through the department’s National Health Interview Survey in 2018.
Hispanics and Blacks continued to be the racial groups most likely to lack coverage, even as the insured rate improved slightly for Hispanics. The survey found that 29.7 percent of Hispanic respondents and 14.7 percent of Black respondents reported having no health insurance in 2019. In 2018, 26.7 percent of Hispanics and 15.2 percent of Blacks were uninsured. Continue reading.