Posted on 08/10/2009 6:15:33 PM PDT by neverdem
"Obamacare" was launched in the wake of a long, persistent Greek Chorus of claims that 46 million Americans lacked health insurance, had to have it and only the federal government could "reform" the system to make it possible. The number of uninsured was climbing steadily, said Dr. Obama.
The new president's revival meetings (aka "town halls") often featured examples of the inequities of the present system: a cancer victim denied coverage, someone who couldn't afford a hip replacement, and so forth. Dr. Obama's prescriptions were repeated over and over: His plan would reduce the nation's health care bill; a "public option" would force private carriers to be more competitive; no one with private health insurance would lose it, and so forth. All this would happen if only we covered those 46 million uninsured.
Just who are the uninsured? In 2005 the Congressional Budget Office reported that 15.9 percent of Americans were in that category, down slightly from 16 percent in 1998. In fact, health care of children improved strongly. In 1998, the CBO reported 11.1 million without coverage; in 2005, 8.3 million.
The 2005 CBO report said that the majority of the uninsured are either illegal immigrants (as many as 12 million), or earn between $50,000 and $75,000 annually (8.3 million), or earn more than $75,000 a year (8.74 million) and elect not to purchase health insurance. That adds up to 29 million of 46 million total.
Of the rest, approximately 8.8 million are without insurance for four months or less and then return to the ranks of the insured. That leaves some 8.2 million Americans the Kaiser Family Foundation's analysis describes as "chronically uninsured."
There are some questions Dr. Obama never addresses in his informercial press conferences and "town hall" meetings. Meanwhile, his allies in Congress concern themselves only...
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End state renal disease AUTOMATICALLY qualifies any citizen for Medicare, regardless of age!
End state renal disease AUTOMATICALLY qualifies any citizen for Medicare, regardless of age!
And we think 0 is good with numbers, why?
0 x 0 = 0
0 + 0 = 0
0 - 0 = 0
0 / 0 = ERROR!!!
Nothing ending in an error
We’re uninsured because our medical group under Blue Cross was cancelled when we got older. Everybody in the group had to reapply as an individual. By then we had preexisting conditions and the only insurance we could get was so expensive we had to make a decision about whether we wanted to live in abject poverty with health insurance or take a chance and hope God would be kind enough to keep us alive till 65, when we can sign up for Medicare.
I have to survive another 9 1/2 months but hubby has another year and a half to go.
If everyone did their freakin' job, we wouldn't be in this freakin' mess.
Eliminate the illegal aliens and those who choose not to be insured and a crisis you have not: http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=330042258549199
Thanks for the link.
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