Sara Collins PhD of the New York-based Commonwealth Fund issued a new report indicating that 30% of people between 19-29 have no health insurance, compared with 12% of children. The number of uninsured young people jumped 3% from 2005 to 2006, to 13.7 million. The statistics were particularly striking for individual communities, with 36% of black young Americans lacking insurance and 53% of Latinos.

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