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To: i-node who wrote (504540)	8/13/2009 2:04:05 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1575874

According to that link, 1.6 million Americans lost their insurance in the first half of 2006 alone because their employer dropped it due to affordability. Since then, we have gone into the longest and deepest recession since the Great Depression. It is extremely unlikely that those employers have restored health insurance and that no others have also dropped it to cut costs. Yes, unemployment has increased massively under Obama and it isn't shocking if there are a more without insurance. But if the stimulus is working as you have suggested, this is a temporary condition. Read the first line again. The employees lost coverage not because they were became unemployed but because their employer couldn't afford the coverage. That's why employers, particularly small businesses, are on the side of reform. That means we do not have the best health system in the world as you keep suggesting. My premium has gone up 400% in ten years even as my coverage has become much less and my deductible much higher. That's not an example of a good health system.

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