What A Relief

Only 44.8 million folks uninsured as opposed to 46.6 million. LATimes (03.24.07):

"The government's estimate of the number of people in the U.S. without health insurance fell by nearly 2 million Friday, but not because anyone got health coverage.

The Census Bureau said it had been overstating the number of people without health insurance since 1995. The agency blamed the inflated numbers on a computer programming error."

U.S. uninsured figures found to be overstated

"The revised estimates show that 44.8 million people, or 15.3% of the population, had no health insurance in 2005. The original estimate was 46.6 million, or about 15.9% of the population."