U.S. lowers number its says have no health insurance | USA Today | 3.23.07
The government said Friday it has overstated by almost 2 million people the number of Americans who have no health insurance, lowering the figure to 44.8 million.
The revised figure provided by the Census Bureau for 2005, the most recent year for which statistics were available, was lower than the 46.6 million it reported in August. The new figure for the uninsured represents 15.3% of the U.S. population of about 300 million.
Ah yes, a less than 5% error (if the uninsured are the denominator) or a less than 1% error (if the U.S. population is in the denominator)—seems the real story should be the 15% that are uninsured by any measure.