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Off the Charts points out that even more Americans would be uninsured if not for public insurance programs like Medicaid. In fact, when it comes to children, “the increase in public coverage (through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP) over the past decade more than offset the decline in private coverage, so the total number of uninsured children went down. ”

The chart below shows changes in insurance coverage within the non-elderly population between 2001 and 2010.