New EPI Healthcare Study By June O’Neill Shows Uninsured ‘Crisis’ Wildly Overestimated

The Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released a new study which shows that the widely employed estimate of 47 million uninsured Americans is a misleading representation of the problem. The study, authored by Drs. June and David O’Neill of Baruch College and City University of New York, shows that more than 43 percent, or 18 million, of uninsured Americans ages 18-64 could likely afford health coverage and are actually “voluntarily uninsured.

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Filed under: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance on June 25th, 2009