1 million adult New Yorkers lacked health insurance in 2005 — Newsday.com

August 23, 2007

About a million adults in the city lacked health insurance in 2005, though most were employed, the health department said Wednesday.

Topping the list of uninsured were adults ages 18 to 24, men and Hispanics. Of those without insurance, 700,000 were employed, the report said.

The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene report also found that one in five of New York’s 8 million residents, including 600,000 with health insurance, lacked a regular doctor in 2005, the last year for which statistics were available. As a result, they missed out on critical preventive care such as screenings and immunizations. (Newsday.com)