Health insurance is what Hillary Clinton has been publicly speaking about since he husband was President.   Last night she mentioned it more than a few times in her address at the National Democratic Convention.  Believe it or not the number of Americans without health insurance dropped by more than a million in 2007, to 45.7 million, the Census Bureau reported. 

“The drop was the result of growth in government-sponsored health insurance programs, officials said, most of them focused on children. At the same time, the number of people covered by private insurance continued to decline.”

“Experts cautioned that the report, which also included data on income and poverty, did not take into account the economic downturn that began late last year, and therefore it probably presents a rosier picture than the current economic reality.”
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