Nearly One in Five U.S. Workers Is Uninsured

According to a recent study, one in five U.S. workers is uninsured. This shows a dramatic decrease in insured workers when compared to mid-1990s totals when only one in seven workers weren’t covered by health insurance. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study was led by Lynn Blewett, director of the State Health Access Data Assistance Center at the University of Minnesota, which conducted the research. According to the report, recent numbers show that the 26.9 million U.S. workers was about six million more than the 20.7 million uninsured workers in the mid-1990s. The trend began to increase...