Census: 388,000 in Utah without health insurance

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Census figures show that 388,000 people in Utah don’t have health insurance.

Those figures include about 100,000 people more than state agencies have estimated and 40,000 more than advocates for the uninsured have forecast in the worst-case scenario.

Health officials say many people can’t afford health insurance.

According to the state Department of Health, comprehensive health insurance premiums in Utah have risen nearly 70 percent since 1999, or about 9 percent each year.

The number of Utahns who have coverage has declined 13 percent since then.

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