A new survey by the Gallup Organization reveals that minorities in particular face a difficult time paying for their healthcare needs. Half of them reported that during the course of the past year, they did not have enough money to pay for their medical bills.

Recently, the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics reported that approximately 43.6 million (14.8%) Americans did not have any health insurance in 2006. During the course of this year, 54.5 million (18.6%) also reported that they had been without insurance at least ounce in 2006 with 30.7 million (10.5%) stating that they had been without insurance for more than a year at the time of the survey. This new Gallup survey appears to corroborate many of these findings.

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