An estimated 27-million women in the U.S. went without health insurance for at least part of the year last year.
That's according to a newly-released Women's Health Care report by the Commonwealth Fund.
The report also finds a significant rise in the number of women skipping out on medical care because of high costs.
Nearly half of all U.S. women, some 48-percent, say they skipped doctor visits, tests, treatments or follow-up visits or didn't fill a prescription because they couldn't afford it.
That's up from 34-percent of women who said the same a decade ago.
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