The number of people in the U.S. possessing health insurance fell by 1.5 million between 2008 and 2009, leaving a record 50.7 million people were without coverage last year, according to new U.S. Census Bureau numbers.

Officials in Millville, N.J., are hoping a switch in their health care provider can save $1.6 million or more as its shifts from its private insurance plan to a state-run health care plan.

If health reform includes a public health insurance plan whose payments mirrored Medicare payment levels, premiums for comparable private insurance would cost 30% more and siphon off about 32 million …  Read →