How Many People In The US Have Health Insurance? 
Over 47 million nonelderly individuals were uninsured in 2012 . This represents a decrease of almost 2 million uninsured people since 2010 . This change resulted from small gains in public coverage and stability in private coverage . However , the number of uninsured is still more than 4 million higher than when the recession began in 2007 . The continued weak economy contributes to the high uninsured rate . More individuals would have become uninsured were it not for the stability of coverage provided by Medicaid and CHIP . 