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To: i-node who wrote (504528)	8/13/2009 1:58:23 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575119

"The reality is the number is quite small. Probably < ~5%, which is what I said months ago." Not so. 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. So your < ~5% figure is clearly a biohazard.