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http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/almost-two-million-veterans-lack-health-coverage

Almost two million veterans lack health coverage:
Study finds sharp increase in number since 2000
October 29, 2007

One in every eight (12.2 percent) of the 47 million Americans without health insurance is a veteran or member of a veteran's household, according to a study by Harvard Medical School researchers based at the Cambridge Health Alliance.

The study is published in the December, 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Just under two million veterans (12.7 percent of non-elderly veterans) were uninsured in 2004, up 290,000 since 2000, the study published in the December, 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health found. An additional 3.8 million members of their households were also uninsured and ineligible for VA care.

Submitted by:
Ann Molison
Fort Collins, CO
November 12, 2009