Uninsured Social Issues

The number of people without health care coverage in the United States is one of the major concerns known to advocates of health care reform. A person without insurance is known as uninsured. There were surveys taken to know the amount of people in the United States without insurance and they found out that the number of people uninsured has fallen due to expanded Medicaid eligibility and health insurance exchanges established from the Patient Protection and Affordable care act known as PPACA or “Obamacare”. Roughly 9.5 million people aged from 19-64 has health insurance which is 5% of the working-age population. There was a report that in July of 2014, the uninsured rate among people aged 18 and over fell from 18% in 2013 to 13.4% in 2014. The Census Bureau reported that in 2007 nearly 37 million people of the uninsured were employment-age adults from ages 18 to 64 and that more than 27 million worked at least part time at a job. Also, according to the United States Census Bureau, in 2012 there were 48 million people in the United States who did not have health insurance. The cause of the rate of uninsured people remains a political debate. …show more content…
In 2009, the Census Bureau states that 10% or 7.5 million children under the age of 18 were medically uninsured. The lower income of the household the more likely it is they are uninsured. A household in 2009 with an annual income of 75,000 or more were only 9.1% unlikely to be insured. There were nearly 8.1 million children uninsured in the United States in 2007 according to the Census Bureau. Young Adults make up the largest age segment of the uninsured. It is also the fasting growing rate for the uninsured. They often lose coverage under their parents’ health care policies or public organizations after the age of 19. And when the young adults lose coverage they will get fined for not having it for a certain amount of