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The answer to your question is over 46.6 million Americans(1) (you have 300 million total), the ones without health insurance.

Lacking health insurance (i.e., a financial services product) is not the same thing as lacking medical services.

But lets ignore that and look more closely at your numbers. Of the 46.6 million uninsured, 14 million are eligible for medicaid/SCHIP, but haven't bothered to sign up. 27 million make at least $50,000/year and simply choose to spend money on other things. Another fun fact: excluding people eligible for medicaid, 70% are uninsured 4 months or less.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/25/who-are-the-...

That leaves about 5.6 million people. I expect we could solve the problem of those 5.6 simply by enforcing our immigration laws.



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