New health insurance coverage numbers/percentages released for first quarter 2009

Today the National Center for Health Statistics released the first numbers for health insurance coverage and non-coverage for 2009 (first quarter, January through March). Below shows the percentage of the population that was uninsured last year, as well as the percentage of the population covered by a public or private plan.

For more information from this report, visit www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/insur200909.htm.