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That depends on how you define 'uninsured'. There are about 6 million without coverage currently (2008). However, a third of those are uninsured by choice. They can qualify for coverage and can afford coverage but choose not to spend their money on insurance. Another third qualify for existing programs like Medical & Medicaid but have not signed up yet. Most common reason is they are not sick. The governements own studies verify that number but they still like to call them uninsured.
Finally there are about 2 million who would like coverage but can not get it, mostly for health reasons. This is the group we should be spending time on, not the first two.
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How many Americans are uninsured?
About 15.6% of the population or 49.8 million Americans are medically uninsured.
How many uninsured homeowners are there?
Nobody that I know of tracks records for uninsured homes. The best you could do is try to find out how many homes there are and how many are insured, from there you might be able to extrapolate an estimate of uninsured homes. I would not however go with the result as a firm number of uninsured because many people use international insurers, so those policies would not necessarily be counted by our domestic insurers. They simply would not be on the rolls of domestic insurers but that does not mean they are uninsured.
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How many medical uninsured people are in the USA?
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