Posted on 07/02/2009 8:49:11 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Washington, DC (AHN) - The number of Americans with no health insurance has increased by almost 3 million people from 1997 to 2008, according to a recent federal study. The study found that about 15 percent of all Americans, or about 44 million people of all ages, have no health coverage.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, "Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimated from the National Health Interview Survey, 2008," was conducted to gauge the latest health insurance estimates in the country.
Among other findings, it showed Massachusetts has the lowest percentage of uninsured people under the age of 65 - 3.4 percent. On the other end of the spectrum, about 25 percent of the under-65 populations of Florida and Texas, and 1 in 5 in Arizona, California and Georgia lack insurance. Nationally, about 16.7 percent of people under 65 don't have health coverage, according to the CDC.
About 80 percent of the insured population in Massachusetts under 65 have private coverage and in Florida, the rate is about 56.2 percent. The national rate of private health insurance coverage is about 65.4 percent for people under 65.
The report shows that the number of uninsured children has decreased significantly - almost 14 percent to 8.9 percent - from 1997 to 2008. More than 34 percent of the nation's children have public health coverage.
The CDC also released a second report on health insurance that examined coverage trends from 1959 to 2007. Among its chief findings was that the number of people under 65 with no coverage has increased by more than 20 percent since its lowest point in 1978.
Hmmmm....
Jerks.
get the hip boots on, the democrat hysteria doo-doo is getting deeper
Of the 44 million, how many are NOT Americans???
< /rhetorical question >
Ho wmany are illegal aliens?
I bet many of those 44 million choose to not have coverage because they want to keep their money. But that’s not how a good socialist acts now is it?
What a load of crap...
Gee, I’m surprised that they chose such a round number. Usually they use a little imagination when making up things. Like the cost of cap n’ trade set at $174 per person. My wife and I joked when we heard that number that it really was 173.52/person and they just rounded it up.
Hardly a ‘discovery’. I’ve been hearing this for years.
57.2% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
How about the number of companies that have dropped coverage due to the COBRA Continuation Subsidy in ARRA? I’d love to know the number of businesses that dropped health insurance this year because they cannot afford paying 65% of someones coverage after they are “involuntarily terminated”.
Dirty Secret is they caused it.
They have created 50 separate markets in the US with all different laws, liabilities, and mandates.
In some states, they have gone from having 14 choices to 2. This was driven by laws that made it unprofitable to operate in the state.
The biggest reducers of choice in health care are(this is about choice and competition and not direct cost):
1. Denial/Pricing Preexisting Conditions
2. Age Based Pricing
3. Denial/Pricing Health Risk Profiling - Smoker, etc... You pay the same though your work regardless of whether you smoke (please note, lifetime health care costs are less than a non-smoker, but there is a big difference where the off-sets are for age groups and therefore must be taken into account)
4. Mandates to cover everything from condoms to aromatherapy .. in some states without even copays
5. Plan Min requirement mandates — difficult to buy a catastrophic health care plan, you can’t customize your plan
6. Markets — Only multi-state businesses are allowed to choose plans that are not-impacted by state laws, this runs up the uninsured without a doubt
Follow me here, kids: it's easy - and fun!!
What was the US population in 1997? 268 million. And in 2008? 304 million. The report claims that 15% of the population were uninsured in 2008, which would be 45 million - they say 44 million, but why quibble, it's a little under 15% either way. The same report also says the number of uninsured has increased by 3 million since 1997.
Okay, then, kiddies: so if 41 (or 42) million were unemployed out of 268 million in 1997, that would be what percentage? (drum roll)
Roughly....15.5%!! So, the uninsured rate has actually declined somewhat! Amazing, given the vast increase in illegal aliens, isn't it? But don't try to confuse these scientific geniuses with demonstrable facts - they've got something much more important to think about: their agenda.
gee whiz, that is so sad, sure hope the Gubberment can do something to help those 440 million uninsured Americans (sarc)
Exactly.
Let’s just say that again, like enjoying a great meal:
“What was the US population in 1997? 268 million. And in 2008? 304 million. The report claims that 15% of the population were uninsured in 2008, which would be 45 million - they say 44 million, but why quibble, it’s a little under 15% either way. The same report also says the number of uninsured has increased by 3 million since 1997.
Okay, then, kiddies: so if 41 (or 42) million were unemployed out of 268 million in 1997, that would be what percentage? (drum roll)
Roughly....15.5%!! So, the uninsured rate has actually declined somewhat! Amazing, given the vast increase in illegal aliens, isn’t it? But don’t try to confuse these scientific geniuses with demonstrable facts - they’ve got something much more important to think about: their agenda.”
Could it be possible that the population of insurance-age persons has increased by 3M since 1997? Count illegals and you already have 1M. Statistics is not an exact science.
Great! Now take out the 14% drop in uninsured children since 1997 from the 15% of all ages report.
and when they end up in the emergency room, guess who pays?
according to the Census, 11.6M are aliens. 26.8% of them are illegal, the balance legal. that means that rougly 4M of the 44M uninsured are illegal aliens, or about 1/11.
I think a lot of people believe that there are 30M illegal aliens in the country. For health care coverage and unemployment, imagine how much better the numbers would be if they went home.
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