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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (4532)	2/15/2008 11:18:48 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 42652

Whatever the exact numbers are, all the categories I mentioned obviously exist. You don't need any complex analysis to know that some people are eligible for government insurance but haven't applied for it. Its also a well established fact that many people who could afford insurance (esp. younger people) choose not to buy it. The only question is the exact numbers, but obviously "47 million uninsured" includes many people that could easily get insurance. While I don't have the exact numbers I can give you some idea of the size of the group that is uninsured by choice. "The Census Bureau reports that 18 million of the uninsured have annual household income of more than $50,000, which puts them in the top half of the income distribution. About a quarter of the uninsured have been offered employer-provided insurance but declined coverage." nytimes.com Message 24023951 "Bundorf and Mark Pauly, the health economist at Wharton who was her thesis adviser, found that as much as three-quarters of the uninsured population may be able to afford its own insurance." gregmankiw.blogspot.com Some data for one state (Massachusetts) "Some 20% of the state's uninsured population qualified for Medicaid but had never signed up... ...Another 40% of the uninsured were earning enough to buy insurance but had chosen not to do so." gregmankiw.blogspot.com

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