The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. September 11, 2019 Number of Uninsured Americans Jumps to 27.5 Million --------------------------------------------------- New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows 27.5 million Americans lacked health insurance last year. This marked a nearly 2 million person increase over the previous year. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blamed the increase on what she described as President Trump's "cruel health care sabotage." .