Abstract
In August 2004, the U.S. Census Bureau released a report on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States. It showed that, between 2002 and 2003, real median household income remained unchanged at $43,318; the official poverty rate rose from 12.1 to 12.5 percent; the number of people with health insurance increased by 1.0 million to 243.3 million; the number without such coverage rose by 1.4 million to 45.0 million; and the percentage of the nation's population without coverage grew from 15.2 to 15.6 percent.
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