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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: TimF who wrote (4558)	2/17/2008 9:19:01 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) of 42652

" More than 73,000,000 people are below the poverty level." My bad.....it is 37,000,000. I was reading the chart for 18 yrs old and under.....blame the on the wine and hour of the evening. But from another source.... 72.14.205.104 " Further, the demographic profile of our subjects is relatively similar to that reported in the 1998 US Census data. For example, having no health insurance was reported by 44% of our subjects whose income was less than 100% of the federal pov- erty level and by 46% of those with incomes between 100%–150% of the level. These percentages compare to the 48% and 39% figures reported by the 1998 US Census study. Thirty-seven percent of our subjects with incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty level did not have health care coverage for part or all of 1999." You wrote....."But even with $50k and a family of four you should be able to buy insurance if you manage your money well and don't live in a very expensive area." That's pretty flippant, I think, since the link above says that 37% of those with 2X (about 50K) the poverty level income don't have insurance.

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