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Why in the FACE of these SOURCED...
FACTS do people persist in believing there are 50 million "uninsured" when in reality there are less then 8 million?
Why are you that persist in this "50 million uninsured" falsehood too chicken to prove these sources wrong???
Nearly 10 million counted as "uninsured" are NOT citizens:
The Census Bureau: Newsroom: Income & Wealth: Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009
Table C. People Without Health Insurance Coverage (Numbers in thousands)
2008 2009
Not a citizen 9,511 9,936
Prove me wrong!!!
14 million people counted as part of the phony 50 million "UNINSURED" are actually covered by Medicaid!
Page 4 of the Blue Cross Report at this web page:http://coverageforall.org/pdf/BC-BS_Uninsured-America.pdf
Of the 44.7 million non-elderly uninsured individuals identified in the 2004 Census Current Population Survey (CPS) data, nearly one-third almost 14 million were reachable through existing government health programs such as Medicaid and the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) under current rules.
Finally 18 million when needed to pass the bill were counted as "uninsured" : then when passed Pelosi et.al. NOW call them "free-loaders"!!!
Nearly 18 million of the uninsured lived in households with annual incomes above $50,000 --
over half of them (9.7 million) in households with incomes that exceed $75,000 annually.
As a result of the FACT that these "uninsured" under 34 generally pay $1,448 in OUT of pocket health expenses per year!
SO WHY would then spend money on health insurance???
Source for the 18 million figure: CRISIS OF THE UNINSURED: 2009
AGE the annual per capita expenditure
20 $ 1,448 (So why should they pay a $2,000 penalty for not having insurance when they pay out less in real expenses???
40 $ 2,601
65 $10,245
Source for above expenditures:: The Lifetime Distribution of Health Care Costs
So NOW as I said Pelosi calls these people that PAY their own way because they have little expenses under age 34..
" Pelosi, speaking to Audie Cornish of National Public Radio, explained that new taxes were necessary because some (many?) of the uninsured actively choose not to buy health insurance, even though they can afford it.
Pelosi's change in attitude towards the uninsured is a complete about-face from the rhetoric that she and the Democrats used in pushing for the massive legislation in 2009-10. Then, Democrats bombarded Americans with heart-wrenching stories--many of them false, particularly those told by President Barack Obama--about the 30, 40, or 50 million people without health insurance. Those who pointed to research that over 40 percent of the uninsured were "voluntary" were dismissed as heartless corporate shills or racists.
Pelosi Bashes the Uninsured: 'Free Riders' - Nancy Pelosi - Fox Nation
FACTS do people persist in believing there are 50 million "uninsured" when in reality there are less then 8 million?
Why are you that persist in this "50 million uninsured" falsehood too chicken to prove these sources wrong???
Nearly 10 million counted as "uninsured" are NOT citizens:
The Census Bureau: Newsroom: Income & Wealth: Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009
Table C. People Without Health Insurance Coverage (Numbers in thousands)
2008 2009
Not a citizen 9,511 9,936
Prove me wrong!!!
14 million people counted as part of the phony 50 million "UNINSURED" are actually covered by Medicaid!
Page 4 of the Blue Cross Report at this web page:http://coverageforall.org/pdf/BC-BS_Uninsured-America.pdf
Of the 44.7 million non-elderly uninsured individuals identified in the 2004 Census Current Population Survey (CPS) data, nearly one-third almost 14 million were reachable through existing government health programs such as Medicaid and the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) under current rules.
Finally 18 million when needed to pass the bill were counted as "uninsured" : then when passed Pelosi et.al. NOW call them "free-loaders"!!!
Nearly 18 million of the uninsured lived in households with annual incomes above $50,000 --
over half of them (9.7 million) in households with incomes that exceed $75,000 annually.
As a result of the FACT that these "uninsured" under 34 generally pay $1,448 in OUT of pocket health expenses per year!
SO WHY would then spend money on health insurance???
Source for the 18 million figure: CRISIS OF THE UNINSURED: 2009
AGE the annual per capita expenditure
20 $ 1,448 (So why should they pay a $2,000 penalty for not having insurance when they pay out less in real expenses???
40 $ 2,601
65 $10,245
Source for above expenditures:: The Lifetime Distribution of Health Care Costs
So NOW as I said Pelosi calls these people that PAY their own way because they have little expenses under age 34..
" Pelosi, speaking to Audie Cornish of National Public Radio, explained that new taxes were necessary because some (many?) of the uninsured actively choose not to buy health insurance, even though they can afford it.
Pelosi's change in attitude towards the uninsured is a complete about-face from the rhetoric that she and the Democrats used in pushing for the massive legislation in 2009-10. Then, Democrats bombarded Americans with heart-wrenching stories--many of them false, particularly those told by President Barack Obama--about the 30, 40, or 50 million people without health insurance. Those who pointed to research that over 40 percent of the uninsured were "voluntary" were dismissed as heartless corporate shills or racists.
Pelosi Bashes the Uninsured: 'Free Riders' - Nancy Pelosi - Fox Nation