Warning: Health Care Lobbyists Are Winning the Battle to Screw All of Us »

RSS Join the Discussion

Comments So Far: 3 (view all)

- Display No Filter Fair Comments - 25% and above Good Comments - 50% and above Excellent Comments - 75% and above

• Neutral

  galletta61216 months, 3 weeks ago

  This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »

  By far the group with highest share of uninsured is Hispanics. Some 34.1% of all Hispanics lack coverage.
  
  That latter piece of data is alarming. Drilling even deeper, one finds that fully 27% of all the uninsured in the U.S. — that's 12.6 million people — aren't even citizens.
  
  Not coincidentally, the government also estimates that about 12 million illegals now reside in the U.S., though some think tanks put the number as high as 20 million.
  
  Putting the two together, this suggests that — surprise — a major reason for the uninsured "problem" is our failure to enforce our border.
  
  By some estimates, another 20% or so is uninsured only for a couple of months a year. As TV journalist John Stossel recently noted, as many as a third of all those eligible for public health programs don't even bother to apply.
  
  Once you whittle it down, you start to realize that the number of hard-core uninsured who are citizens is in fact fairly small — perhaps half the reported 47 million or less.
  
  Yet it's not clear that shrinking the 47 million to zero would help all that much. Because the uninsured still get health care. They get it through Medicaid, the state-run, federally funded program for the indigent. They get care, by law, in any emergency room in the country.
  
  No, that's not the best way to care for someone. But to say that people have "no access to health care," as we often hear, simply is a lie.

  (comment_max_expanded_depth : 2) (comment depth : 2) (recursion depth : 1) (max_comment_reply_depth : 40) (comment_max_render_depth : 3)

  Reply

  1 Reply

  loading ...
  • Neutral

    Charlson6 months, 3 weeks ago

    This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »

    According to the Census Bureau:
    
    "The percentage of native-born citizens who were uninsured rose in 2005, while the percentage of non-citizen immigrants who lacked coverage was unchanged."
    
    "The percentage of Americans with private health insurance declined to 67.7 percent in 2005, marking a pattern of erosion for the past several years. A new research study by Jack Hadley, a health economist at the Urban Institute, found that the main reason that adults’ private insurance coverage has faded in recent years is that the costs of insurance premiums have climbed, making coverage less affordable for employers and employees alike."

    (comment_max_expanded_depth : 2) (comment depth : 3) (recursion depth : 2) (max_comment_reply_depth : 40) (comment_max_render_depth : 3)

    Reply

    0 Replies

    loading ...
• Neutral

  Charlson6 months, 3 weeks ago

  This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »

  Follow the MONEY. Investigate the amount of campaign contributions insurance, pharmaceutical, and special interest health care corporations have given to those that are against the public option of health care reform. You'll most likely find that all of them have gotten thousands and thousand of dollars for their support.

  (comment_max_expanded_depth : 2) (comment depth : 2) (recursion depth : 1) (max_comment_reply_depth : 40) (comment_max_render_depth : 3)

  Reply

  0 Replies

  loading ...

View All 3 Comments

More News