Today’s Wall Street Journal health blog cites projections from credible sources on how, in the absence of health reform, millions more will be uninsured in the near future.
Not a happy scenario.
The number of Americans without health insurance could rise to almost 60 million by 2015 from 49 million today if nothing is done to overhaul the health-care system, a new forecast says.
The uninsured could reach more than 67 million in 10 years, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which paid for the study conducted by the Urban Institute. Read the study and related data here.
The number of Americans without health insurance could rise to almost 60 million by 2015 from 49 million today if nothing is done to overhaul the health-care system, a new forecast says.