Cover the Uninsured Week
http://covertheuninsured.org/
April 27- May 3, 2008
Cover the Uninsured, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is a national effort to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and to demand solutions from our nation’s leaders. On this website, find out whats happening near you, see facts and research, learn more about the campaign. From the overview section: “Recent Census Bureau data demonstrate that the problem of the uninsured continued in 2006. According to figures released in August 2007, 47 million people — 15.8 percent of the total U.S. population — were uninsured in 2006, up slightly from 15.3 percent in the previous year.”