Thursday, March 26, 2009
Got insurance?
Posted by Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:38 AM
No insurance? There's a good chance your neighbor doesn't have any either.
The ranks of the uninsured have grown more in North Carolina than in any other state since the start of the economic downturn, according to a study by the N.C. Institute of Medicine and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.The study estimates that the number of uninsured in North Carolina has grown by 322,000 since 2007, bringing the bumber of uninsured in the state to about 1.8 million.
More than 20 percent of the non-elderly population in the state lacks insurance, according to the study.
Read the rest of this Charlotte Business Journal article here.
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