Health Care In the United States is broken. Proposed fixes abound. Some 49 million U.S. residents have no health insurance, and the numbers keep growing. Of the 49 million Americans without health insurance, 8.7 million are children. Because employers increasingly are moving in the direction of providing Warehouse-style health coverage by shifting health care costs to employees, America’s workers struggle to pay higher premiums, deductibles and co-payments-if they can afford such coverage at all.