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Number of Americans With Health Insurance Growing

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The number of Americans with health insurance is growing.

More than 260 million people had some sort of healthcare coverage in 2011.

That's up 4 million from the year before. This means nearly 85% of Americans are insured.

There's a few reasons for the increase. First, a growing number of people are getting health insurance from the government, meaning medicaid or medicare.

Second, more young adults are insured, largely because of 2010's Affordable Care Act. It allows children to stay on their parent's plans until age 26.

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