Health Populi September 17, 2020
In terms of income, U.S. households entered 2020 in the best financial shape they’d been in years, based on new Census data released earlier this week.
However, the U.S. Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019, with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance.
In fact, the number of uninsured Americans rose by 2 million people in 2018, and by 1.9 million people in 2017.
The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the erosion of the health insured population.
What havoc a pandemic can do to minds, bodies, souls, and wallets. By September 2020, about 36 million people in the U.S. lacked health insurance.
Losing health insurance in the...