WASHINGTON -- A new survey has found that more than a quarter of American adults ages 19 to 64 lacked health insurance for at least some time in 2011.
And the vast majority of those people, nearly 70 percent, had been without coverage for more than a year, according to the study by the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that studies health policy.
Nearly 50 million people in the country now lack coverage, a number that has been rising as employers eliminate jobs or cut back health benefits.
The new U.S. health-care law is to extend coverage to more than 30 million uninsured Americans starting in 2014.
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