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The Census Bureau estimates that more than 46 million Americans are uninsured.
A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation finds that middle class Americans are the ones "losing their health insurance faster than any other income group," the Huffington Post reported.
Lower income earners, if dropped from an employer-sponsored program, are likely to be covered by Medicaid, a government program.
Only two-thirds of people considered to be in the middle class—those whose families earn between $45,000 and $85,000 per year—are covered by an employer-sponsored plan.
And "for a lot of middle class Americans, the individual market is not a real option," said Brian Quinn, Robert Wood Johnson's research and evaluation officer. (A PDF of the complete report can be viewed here.)
Lloyd Winburn from SLATE
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