According to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 46.6 million Americans were not covered by health insurance in 2005, up from 45.3 million a year before.
David S. Johnson, chief of the bureau's Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division, tells Forbes, "That's an increase of people without health insurance coverage from 15.6 percent in 2004 to 15.9 percent in 2005.
According to Johnson, a key reason why an increasing number of Americans are going without insurance is that more employers are not offering plans.
He says the percentage of Americans with employer-sponsored insurance plans has fallen from 59.8 percent in 2004 to 59.5 percent in 2005.
