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Millions of Americans Don't Have Health Insurance

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About 46,000,000 Americans did not have health insurance last year according to newly released government statistics.

The total is lower than it was in 2010, but it's still higher than the 41,000,000 uninsured reported in 1997.

A little more than 5,000,000 of the uninsured are under the age of 18.

That's a sharp drop from the nearly 10,000,000 uninsured kids in 1997.