How Many Americans Are Currently Without Health Insurance? 
Estimates of the numbers of uninsured Americans have always varied widely depending upon the definitions used . As of June of 2014 and the completion of the first open enrollment period for ObamaCare a firm count on the numbers of insured and uninsured Americans is yet to be announced . After all the effort , expense and turmoil associated with the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act -LRB- ObamaCare -RRB- the initial indications are that we have slightly reduced the number of uninsured Americans . A poll released in April , 2014 indicates that the uninsured rate declined from a peak of approximately 18 % in the summer of 2013 -LRB- which was the high point since the start of the recession in 2008 - the overall average uninsured rate for the 2008 through 2013 period was more in the 16 % to 16.5 % range -RRB- to approximately 15.6 % at the end of the first quarter of 2014 . This represented about a 1.5 % decrease in the uninsured population from January 1 , 2014 -LRB- 17.1 % -RRB- to the end of March , 2014 and our uninsured rate remains above the level that existed before the 2008 financial crisis . Assuming that we have a population of approximately 320 million in the United States , my math would indicate that leaves close to 50 million uninsured Americans . The number I hear and see used most often states that there are still more than 30 million Americans without health insurance . I ca n't reconcile the different numbers but what is clear is that our efforts to insure every American have fallen significantly short ofthe stated objective . 