For the first time in more than 50 years of surveys, the CDC on Wednesday
reported that more than 90% of Americans — 90.8% of us, to be specific — have health insurance.
Until now, no major survey had
ever found that the uninsured rate in America has hit single digits.
The data comes from the National Health Interview Survey, which the CDC has been conducting for more than 50 years. The questions have sometimes changed, but until this year, the answers haven’t: More than 10% of respondents, and sometimes as many as 18% of Americans, have reported that they’ve been uninsured