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Really, this just does a good job of it.

Most advanced one we have i believe.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p60-235.pdf


When you read the whole thing it pains a much different picture then just reading the number.

From the actual census... it states it under reports insurance for a variety of reasons.

17% of people with Medicaid for example report not having any health insurance.

43 Million people are on medicaid. So that's 7.31 Million people.

So 46 million uninsured drops to 38.70.

7% of those surveyed are undocumented residents... and likely don't have health insurance. It's about 9.4... this of course

Drops us to 29.3 million

Now, 14.4% of people who make 50K or more don't get health insurance.

Along with 7.8% of people who make 75K or more.

This is about the 4th and 5th quartiles in america. (A little more but lets be conservative.)


14.4% of the 4th quartile is 8.75 + 7.8% of the 5th quartile 4.74. = 13.49 million

So that leaves us with...

15.81 Million uninsured... but there is still more. But i'm breaking this up into two posts.