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The Numbers Game: The Ranks of the Invisible Grow

Posted by Geri Jenkins RN... on June 11, 2008 - 1:57pm

Sixteen million. For the past several years, healthcare activists have been making consistent reference to the same number. By now, it’s become a standard, one of those statistics you can hang your hat on, a number that’s seared into the brains of anyone who works as a care provider, or, for that matter, anyone who’s seen Michael Moore’s SiCKO. It was a steadfast reminder that we need to do something, now: sixteen million.  That’s how many people live with inadequate health insurance in America.  

Or rather, that’s how many Americans lived with inadequate health insurance in the year 2003. On June 10, 2008, the Commonwealth Fund released an updated report on the problem of America’s under-insured, with data current to the year 2007. Now we have a new number to remember: 25 million.

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