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Healthcare for Uninsured and Underinsured

Where does someone go that has lost their job, and has no insurance?   Resources may be limited.     The Facts of Uninsured Patients It may be surprising to hear, but currently 33 million Americans still have no insurance.   Nearly 9 million people gained insurance last year, a win for “Obamacare as the president’s signature health care law expanded Medicaid and opened health insurance exchanges. And yet, 33 million Americans , 10.4 percent of the U.S. population, still went without health insurance for the entirety of 2014. Millions more were uninsured for at least part of the year.   Information released this month shows they were disproportionately poor, black and Hispanic; 4.5 million of them were children.   It is not a surprise that some Americans still do not   have health insurance. Despite aiming to insure everyone in the U.S., the Affordable Care Act left significant gaps in coverage, and decisions made by the law’s opponents have denied benefits to millions