Remember the 40 million uninsured figure in speeches? DOUBLE IT

[ShaneGR]

Take a wild guess which state has the highest rate of uninsured.

http://www.cleveland.com/business/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/business/108738541653350.xml

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82 million in U.S. uninsured for health care in last 2 years
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Mark Sherman
Associated Press
Washington- Nearly 82 million people - one-third of the U.S. population younger than 65 - lacked health insurance at some point over the past two years and most of those were uninsured for more than nine months, says a study by the private group Families USA.

The problem reaches deep into the middle class, affects African- Americans and Hispanics disproportionately and is most pronounced among people younger than 25, according to the group's analysis of census data.

The study, which was due to be released today,found that 8.5 million Texas residents, or 43.4 percent of the nonelderly popula tion there, did not have health insurance - the highest rate in the country.

Other states where more than 35 percent of people younger than 65 were uninsured were: New Mexico, 42.4 percent; California, 37.1 percent; Nevada, 36.8 percent; Louisiana, 36.2 percent; Arizona, 35.7 percent; Mississippi, 35.1 percent, and Oklahoma, 35 percent.

[NMDemDist2]

1. geez

i just love all this good news first thing in the morning

/sarcasm off

[molly]

2. I went to the drugstore yesterday

to pick up my prescriptions. As I was waiting, a woman approached the counter. It looked like she had a broken arm and her physician had called in 3 prescriptions. The pharm clerk said to her "you either can pay for this or have your physcian contact the insurance company and tell them why he prescribed this - it usually takes 5 days because he must contact them in writing then wait for their reply."

I turned and looked at her as she mumbled "it just gets worse and worse".

[ShaneGR]

3. Soon people will stage robberies of pharmacists....

Not because they're junkies.... because they want to live.

[wurzel]

4. Health care should be part of Homeland Security!

If we had the "Terrorist Attacks" Ashcroft is always warning us about, how would our present privatized health system cope? It clearly couldn't. At this time we should be building a surplus of facilities to take care of the thousands of injured this administration is always predicting. Clearly, for profit health care can't do this. Either these terrorist threats are greatly exaggerated, or we have the same kind of planning for the aftermath an attack here as we had for post war Iraq.

[SlingBlade]

5. I read this first thing

How can we call ourselves a great nation, When this many of our fellow Americans go without health insurance.
The pukes like to say their is a safety net, Now I cant deny there may be, But nobody is going to tell me that these 80 million people receive the same level of care as one with insurance, This is the very first fucking thing they ask you when you walk intro a hospital.
Hell you don't even see a doctor until you've filled out and signed 5 fucking sheets of paper and that’s WITH insurance.

We can spend billions on war and on corporate tax breaks, But whenever universal health care is brought up , It cost too much.

We need to hang our fuicking heads down in shame, Its pathetic.

[wurzel]

6. Makes you wonder what Bush means by "human rights"!

Don't it?