Health insurance coverage in the United States

Employer-sponsored insurance has long been the mainstay of health coverage for most middle-class American families. But a new report has found that the middle class is losing its health coverage faster than any other income group.

Peter Nicks tells us about his project “The Waiting Room,” which follows the life and times of patients and staff at a county hospital in Oakland, California, where many patients are uninsured and seek care with no way to pay their bills.

This morning we talk to our man on Capitol Hill, Todd Zwillich, and Jay Newton-Small, Washington reporter for Time Magazine, about apologies and how the latest uninsured numbers will shape the health care debate from here on out.

The last piece of the health care reform law is now on its way to President Obama. The law’s main purpose is to extend health care coverage to uninsured Americans. Those who are here illegally are still out of luck. The World’s Alex Gallafent reports.