Increasing while declining.

Here is an interesting statement from the U.S. Census report on income and poverty as of 2005 (http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p60-231.pdf):

The number of people with health insurance coverage increased, while the percentage of people with health insurance coverage decreased between 2004 and 2005.

Are we breeding uninsured? Killing off the insured? The report explains (or doesn't actually):

The number of people with health insurance coverage rose from 242.4 million in 2002 to 243.3 million in 2003. Nonetheless, the percentage with coverage dropped from 84.8 percent to 84.4 percent, mirroring a drop in the percentage of people covered by employment-based health insurance (61.3 percent in 2002 to 60.4 percent in 2003). This decline in employment-based health insurance coverage essentially explains the drop in total private health insurance coverage, from 69.6 percent in 2002 to 68.6 percent in 2003.

Hmm "...decline in employment-based health insurance..." Sanitized English in which no allusion is made to the increasingly vicious business climate where every benefit given to an employee is seen as a dollar robbed from a shareholder's trust account. No, I can't account for the increase yet decline.