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red states rule
08-27-2008, 05:50 AM
How can this be folks? The numbers if uninsured is down, and incomes rose!!

Yet the messiah and Dems are telling us things stink, and how we are only days away from a recession if not a depression

I am sure some doom and gloom libs like MFM and BP will rise to the occassion and tell us how the report nothing but a pack of right wing lies



Census: Uninsured total shrank, incomes rose in 2007

By Dennis Cauchon and Julie Appleby, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — Despite an economy starting to wobble, incomes were up and more people had health insurance last year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Income inequality even shrank a bit.

The snapshot was taken before 2008, when the housing market collapse accelerated and job losses soared.

The nation has lost 463,000 jobs since the start of 2008, after adding 1.1 million in 2007, so it's not clear whether the economic gains of last year are continuing.


CENSUS AND POVERTY: See figures for your state
EXPERTS: Economy may stall push for health care

The Census reported:

•Income. Median household income rose to $50,233 in 2007 after adjusting for inflation. That's $665 more than a year earlier but still below the peak of 1999. Income in black households rose for the first time since 1999.

•Poverty. The poverty rate remained stable at 12.5% of households.

•Equality. The top one-fifth of households took home slightly less of the nation's income in 2007. The middle and lower-middle class gained the most.

•Insurance. The number of people without health insurance dropped 1.3 million to 45.7 million. The uninsured fell to 15.3% from 15.8%. The primary reason for decline: More people, especially children, are covered by government-sponsored insurance.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2008-08-26-census-poverty_N.htm?csp=15

MtnBiker
08-27-2008, 10:14 AM
How can this be folks? The numbers if uninsured is down


This is how;

Insurance. The number of people without health insurance dropped 1.3 million to 45.7 million. The uninsured fell to 15.3% from 15.8%. The primary reason for decline: More people, especially children, are covered by government-sponsored insurance.




Wow, more government spending, more socialized medicine and more bloated bureaucracy. Is that what you want?

red states rule
08-27-2008, 10:54 AM
This is how;

Insurance. The number of people without health insurance dropped 1.3 million to 45.7 million. The uninsured fell to 15.3% from 15.8%. The primary reason for decline: More people, especially children, are covered by government-sponsored insurance.




Wow, more government spending, more socialized medicine and more bloated bureaucracy. Is that what you want?

I don't

But the Obamabots do since not only will Obama cover uninsured Americans, but will probably want to include illegals as well

manu1959
08-27-2008, 12:28 PM
what if the government outsourced the purchase of an insurance plan to offer insurance to anyoneone that does not have it.....

in other words.....just as you "buy" insurance from your employer you could choose to buy insurance from this private "govt" sponsored plan .... and you could write it off your taxes.....


it is not gov't run, you still "buy" it from say cigna or healthnet and you get to pick your doctor .....

Trigg
08-27-2008, 01:20 PM
A recent study stated that the illegal population is down by almost a million also.

Gee, I wonder if them being gone has an affect on the census numbers??????

5stringJeff
08-27-2008, 08:20 PM
Two things need to happen to fix health care in America:

1. Allow people to buy health insurance across state lines. This will allow insurance companies in less regulated states to thrive, while insurance companies in heavily-regulated states will move out. The market will again be able to determine the "right" amount of regulation.

2. Remove the health insurance deduction from business taxes and give it to individuals. This puts individuals in charge of their own health insurance costs, giving them an incentive to keep them as low as possible.

April15
08-27-2008, 10:37 PM
Health insurance coverage improves access and quality of medical care and can contribute to the overall health of Americans. According to 2005 data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and the National Hospital Ambulatory Care Survey1,

Graph: 14.8% (43.6 million) of Americans are uninsured. 19.8% (36.5 million) are adults and 9.2% (6.8 million) are children.
SOURCE: National Health Interview Survey, 2006

• The visit rate for patients with no insurance was about twice that of those with private insurance in emergency departments.

• Conversely, patient visits to physician offices were higher for individuals with private health insurance compared to those with no insurance.

Other recent data on health insurance from the National Health Interview Survey2show slight increases in uninsured adults:

• In 2006, 14.8 percent of Americans, or 43.6 million, were currently without health insurance.

• Among working-age Adults (those ages 18-64), 19.8% did not have health insurance in 2006, an increase in the percent uninsured from 18.9% the year before.

• Approximately 9.3% of children under the age of 18 did not have health insurance in 2006, a non significant increase in the uninsured from 8.9% in 2005.

Data from 20063also show differences in percentage uninsured by race and ethnicity:

• Almost a third (32.1 percent) of Hispanic people were uninsured when interviewed in 2006.

• While 10.4 percent of non-Hispanic white persons and 15.9 percent of non-Hispanic black persons were uninsured when interviewed.

A person was defined as uninsured if he or she did not have any private health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), state-sponsored or other government-sponsored health plan, or military plan. A person was also defined as uninsured if he or she had only Indian Health Service coverage or had only a private plan that paid for one type of service such as accidents or dental care.

To learn more about other topics, visit the Data and Statistics page for more survey data, tools, and other resources from across CDC.