September 2, 2009

• A look behind the numbers: health care

  There are 46 million uninsured people in America. Sounds bad, doesn’t it? So today I went and tried to figure out who those people are:

  17.6 million of those have incomes of more than $50,000 a year (they might not want insurance because they can pay with cash)
  14 million already qualify for medicaid, they just need to apply.
  9.7 million aren’t US citizens

  Of course, some of those people may need help too, and some of the others have trouble because of pre-existing conditions, but it’s important to see the true problem you are facing if you want to solve it.

  • 9:40 pm
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