Fewer People Lacked Health Insurance in 2001
From Staff and Wire Reports
The number of people without health insurance in California fell to 6.2 million last year, a drop of about 375,000 from 1998, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research said Tuesday.
Researchers attributed the decline to the strong economy and low unemployment in the late 1990s.
E. Richard Brown, director of the UCLA center, said the current recession may have erased those gains, but it’s too early to tell. Also, the rising cost of health care “will dampen the positive trend that we’ve seen,” he said.
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