The Facts

Quality health care that once seemed reliable is quickly being priced out of reach for millions of hardworking, taxpaying Americans. The health care crisis affects us all regardless of age, race or employment.

Nearly 45 million Americans are uninsured.  That's over 15 percent of the population. 

And that number doesn't even scratch the surface of the number of Americans who are underinsured in this country.

In Colorado:

• 772,000 Coloradans are uninsured.
• 37% of Hispanic people are uninsured.
• 13% of white people are uninsured.
• 19% of women are uninsured.
• Kids up to 200% of the federal poverty level are eligible for health coverage in Colorado.
• The price of health care for the uninsured increased health insurance premiums for individual private employer coverage by $355 in 2005.  If nothing changes, in 2010, the increase in price will be $576.

Note: Due to the yet to be released revised statistics from the Census Bureau, the sample for the number of uninsured black people and Asian people is too small.