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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (111970)	9/5/2011 5:27:55 PM
From: Follies	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224738

>>Texas has the highest uninsured rate because Perry wants it that way. I don't want health insurance but it is the only way to get the negotiated rates for treatments/procedures. Insurance is a scheme to take most of the money from most of the participants and pay out large sums to a few participants while pocketing a little vigorish to run the operation. Insurance is a less than zero sum game. Not everything that comes in goes out and if you think you are lucky enough to get out more than you put in, by a lottery ticket.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (111970)	9/6/2011 9:37:50 PM
From: lorne	7 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224738

Ken..."Texas has the highest uninsured rate because Perry wants it that way".... .Gallup: Uninsured Have Increased Under Obama and Since Obamacare Was Enacted Tuesday, September 06, 2011 By Terence P. Jeffrey cnsnews.com (CNSNews.com) - The percentage of American adults who lack health insurance coverage has not only increased during the presidency of Barack Obama, but it has continued to increase since Obama signed his signature piece of legislation last year mandating that by 2014 every American carry health insurance, according to a Gallup survey released today. In 2008, when George W. Bush was president, according to Gallup, 14.9 percent of adult residents of the United States lacked health insurance coverage. That increased to 16.2 percent in 2009, the year that Obama was inaugurated, and to 16.4 percent in 2010, the year that Obama signed his law requiring that all Americans have health insurance. In the first half of this year, according to data released by Gallup today, the percentage of adults in the United States lacking health insurance ticked up to 16.8 percent. That conclusion is based on Gallup's interviews with 177,237 American adults from January through June of this year. The interviews were part of the ongoing Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index survey. Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010. It mandates that all Americans must purchase government-approved health insurance plans by 2014. Under the legislation, families earning less than 400 percent of the poverty level will receive a federal subsidy to buy insurance. The constitutionality of the mandate is being challenged in federal court by more than half of the states.