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We sure are making progress in the world
Harry Krause wrote:
From USA TODAY, 8/29/06: http://www.usatoday.com/money/indust...e_x.htm?csp=34 Americans without health insurance rise as job-based coverage continues to fall By Julie Appleby, USA TODAY Job-based health insurance -- the main way Americans get coverage -- fell for the fifth consecutive year in 2005, helping push the overall percentage of Americans without health insurance up to 15.9% of the population. Figures released Tuesday by the Census Bureau show that 46.6 million people were without health insurance in 2005, up from 45.3 million in 2004. Unlike in other recent years, there was no increase in the rate of enrollment in government-based programs, such as Medicaid, which had helped to offset declines in private insurance. The continued decline in job-based insurance comes amid rising health insurance premiums, up about 9% in 2005, a smaller increase than in several previous years, but still three times inflation. Many benefit analysts and economists predict that rates for insurance will continue to rise faster than inflation. "It's especially worrisome because if we get into another economic downturn, there will be even fewer people with access to employer coverage or fewer who can afford it," says Peter Cunningham, senior fellow at the Center for Studying Health System Change, a Washington D.C. research group. Even the percentage of children without coverage grew last year, from 10.8% to 11.2%, ending what had been one of the few bright spots in the effort to decrease the number of people without health coverage. "This really represents the first increase in the percent of children who are uninsured since 1998," when the State Children's Health Insurance Program went into effect, says Cunningham. - - - - - - - - - Ahh, the Republican wet dream realized: A huge and growing underclass of Americans with marginal jobs and no benefits More tax cuts for the wealthy High oil prices A permanent state of war Repression of civil liberties Yes, indeed, we're well on our way. Yup.. we're well on the way back to a feudal system. The Lords & Masters will own/control all and the majority will be nothing better than serfs or slaves. let's hope all our grandchildren will be part of the 10% elite class. |
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