Who are the uninsured in Minnesota?
About 14 percent of Minnesota's artists are uninsured, according to Artists Count, a 2007 survey of about 20,000 artists conducted by Minnesota Citizens for the Arts.
That's nearly double the 7.2 percent rate of the state's overall uninsured population, according to the latest Fact Sheet (PDF) prepared by the Minnesota Department of Health and the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health.
While low-income people certainly dominate the ranks of the uninsured, increasing numbers of the so-called middle class are joining them, says Kathleen Call (pictured), an associate professor in the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health/Division of Public Policy and Management who has worked on the state surveys since the mid-1990s.
"The middle class is having a lot of difficulty affording health care coverage, and it's getting harder for employers to offer it," Call stated in an article today on MinnPost.
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