WASHINGTON, Sept 13: Some 1.3 million more Americans had health insurance in 2011, as healthcare reform helped blunt a decade-long decline in private coverage and government safety nets expanded to cover growing numbers of the poor, elderly and disabled. Census Bureau data released on Wednesday showed that the number of uninsured shrank to 48.6 million people from 50 million in 2010, leaving 15.7 per cent of the US population without the most reliable means to pay for doctors, hospitals and life-saving procedures including cancer screenings. (agencies)
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