Ranks of Poor, Uninsured Rose in 2003
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WASHINGTON - The number of Americans living in poverty increased by 1.3 million last year, while the ranks of the uninsured swelled by 1.4 million, the Census Bureau reported Thursday.    It was the third straight annual increase for both categories...
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One out of every eight Americans now lives below the poverty line, as the percentage of the US population living in poverty rose for the third consecutive year in 2003, the US Census Bureau reported Thursday.
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Democrats took aim at President Bush&#39;s economic record after release of a Census Bureau report showing the ranks of the uninsured and the impoverished grew in 2003 for the third consecutive year while incomes stayed level.
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A mushrooming number of poor people who need medical care will push up the state&#39;s Medicaid costs another $119 million next fiscal year.
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Poor-paying positions in health care and social services have driven recent growth in employment in the city.
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he number of people without health insurance rose by 1.4 million, to a record 45 million last year, amid rising costs for coverage and a continuing fall-off in the number of workers in
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An extra 1.3 million Americans slid into poverty in 2003 while health care cover also fell, official figures show.
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Nearly 1.7 million US veterans had no health care coverage in 2003 -- no access to private insurance, to Medicare or Medicaid or to the
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Six months ago, the death of a 12-year-old Prince George's County boy from untreated dental decay shed a grim spotlight on gaps in federal and state medical assistance programs charged with providing care to 30 million poor children.
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Some 1.3 million Americans slid into  poverty in 2003 as the ranks of the poor swelled to 35.9  million, with children and blacks worse off than most, the U.S.  government said on Thursday in a report sure to fuel Democratic  criticism of President Bush.
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The nationâs median household income grew modestly in 2006 even as the percentage of people without health insurance hit a high.
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Health insurance may be out of reach  for more Americans as medical costs rose faster than worker  income in the first half of the year, according to a closely  watched survey released on Thursday.
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Uninsured lower-income Massachusetts residents who earn just enough to escape poverty will pay about $18 a month for coverage under the state's new health insurance law, while those who make more will pay up to about $106.
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ATLANTA - A new study has found that 15 medical conditions accounted for about half of the US$200 billion (S$342 billion) rise in US health spending from 1987 to 2000.
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The number of people living in the nation without medical insurance rose 2.9 percent to a record 46.6 million in 2005 as health-care costs climbed.
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The cost of employer-provided health insurance rose 6.1 percent this year, the smallest jump since 1999 but still well above the increase in wages and consumer prices, according to an annual survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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The number of adults without health insurance jumped by 2 million from 2005 to 2006, according to a new federal report.