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by tptacek 5206 days ago
The remainder in this statistic are covered by what? Medicare/medicaid? Private insurance? Co-op plans? Nothing at all?
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17% have no coverage at all.

56% get it from their employer, and 8% buy their own private insurance.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2009 figures http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p60-238.pdf (Starting on page 22)

How many of those 17% are illegal immigrants? Do you have that data?
17% of 300 million = 50 million. There are ~10-12 million illegal immigrants so up to 20%.