Wonk Room » UPDATE: 15000 People Lost Health Insurance Per Day In 2009

Harkin’s claim that “today and every day, an estimated 14000 Americans will lose their health insurance coverage.” The statistic cited by Sen. Harkin comes from a report we released in February showing that the job market turmoil at the …

U.S. study: 1 in 5 lost health insurance in past year (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Nearly 20 percent of the U.S. population — or almost 60 million people — went without health insurance at some point since January 2008, according to government estimates released Wednesday.

Over 45 Million Americans Now Lack Health Insurance (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 16 (HealthDay News) — In the first six months of this year, 45.4 million Americans of all ages — or 15.1 percent of the population — had no health insurance, according to new National Health Interview Survey statistics released Wednesday.

Insurance Competition

[Mackey proposes] Repealing mandates on what insurance must cover & state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines. [But, alleges Dr. Harrison,] Without some minimum national regulations and means of …

Finally, iPhone Insurance (Sort of)

A very common feature of many highly used iPhones are unsightly cracks in the screen. Since screen cracks are almost …