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700,000 New Yorkers with jobs do not have health insurance
08-22-2007 · EurekAlert!One million New Yorkers -- some 17 percent of the adult population -- lacked coverage in 2005, according to a new health department report, and 700,000 of them were employed. Up to a quarter of the city's uninsured may be eligible for benefits they are not claiming.
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