1 Pellicle, the protective cover which can be applied to a photomask used in semiconductor device fabrication. Pellicle, the protective cover which can be applied to a photomask used in semiconductor device fabrication.
The percentage of Americans without health insurance just hit an all-time low. The percentage of Americans that do not have health insurance now sits at 8.6%, the lowest on record, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Expansion of managed care helps to moderate increases in health care costs. Federal health care reform legislation fails again to pass in the U.S. Congress. By the end of the decade there are 44 million Americans, 16 % of the nation, with no health insurance at all. Human Genome Project to identify all of the more than 100,000 genes in human DNA gets underway.