They do not want no stinkin inshooance. They rather have tv and beer.
The Census Bureau report “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007.” The report was issued in August 2008 and contains the most up-to-date official data on the number of uninsured in the U.S.
The report discloses that there were 45.65 million people in the U.S. who did not have health insurance in 2007.
However, it also reveals that there were 9.73 million foreigners — foreign-born non-citizens who were in the country in 2007 — included in that number. So the number of uninsured Americans was actually 35.92 million.
And of those, “there were also 9.1 million people making more than $75,000 per year who did not choose to purchase health insurance,” CNSNews stated in a report based on the Census Bureau data.
That brings the number of Americans who lack health insurance presumably for financial reasons down less than 27 million.
The Census Bureau report also shows that the number of people without insurance actually went down in 2007 compared to the previous year — from 47 million to 45.65 million — while the number with insurance rose from 249.8 million to 253.4 million.
My sister works and is offered heath insurance through her employer. She would be required to pay a small part of the premium. She declined the coverage.
She also has a major illness and has had no problem receiving care. Her medical bills, according to her, are around a million dollars but she still is able to she her doctors and receive treatment.
I have a hard time believing anyone is without care in this country.
Our family is on my wife’s medical plan. She just switched jobs as her old one was VERY tied to Chrysler...
We have 2 kids entering middle school this year and so they need vaccinations. We went to county services on the day before her old plan expired. (the new one won’t start for a while) We were advised by the folks there that we could reduce OUR cost for these by simply waiting a few days for our insurance to expire. Shots would have been $50. a piece will only cost us $15. next week.
Gee, I NEEEEEEEEEED the govermnent to overhaul our medical system!!! yeah, right...
Those who don’t have medical care/health insurance by no choice of their own are WELL taken care of. I don’t buy the line “they just DON’T sign up...” either.
When our ‘poor’ people in this country hear of a program that gives them FREE anything, they show initiative that would propel them above all their co-workers -if they got jobs.
In this country, it pays to not work.
Bump.
Sweeping changes to 85% of Americans who currently have health insurance or medicare is not necessary to accommodate the other 15% of the supposedly uninsured.
bump