OBR Minute: 9/20/10 – Census shows 4.1 million uninsured in FL

Posted on September 20, 2010. Filed under: OBR Minutes | Tags: Advertising, agency, business, government insurance, health insurance, health reform act, health reform law, health system, house, insurance, marketing, minutes, OBR, ORLANDO, Orlando Business Report, ph, power, Power house, Powerhouse, Powerhouse USA, private insurance, promotions, U.S. Census Bureau |

The U.S. Census Bureau published statistics that revealed 4.1 million people in Florida did not have health insurance in 2009.

The health care reform goal of getting insurance for nearly all Americans has a lot to work on, as it does in the rest of the country, where 50.7 million people were uninsured last year.

In Florida, 26.6 percent of people under the age of 65 did not have health insurance. From the under-65 age group, 58.7 percent of Floridians were covered by private health insurance and 19.7 percent were on government health insurance.

Nationwide, 18.8 percent of people had no health insurance.

The health reform law requires most people to buy insurance and most companies to offer insurance to their employees, and it expands the eligibility requirements for Medicaid.

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