How many Americans have no health insurance?

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And out of that number how many choose not to have it because they are young and healthy?
 
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or choose not to have it because they are wealthy enough to not need it?
 
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47 million have no health insurance

the U.S. pays twice what the rest of the industrialized world pays in health care costs and they insure everyone
 
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oklavol said:
47 million have no health insurance

the U.S. pays twice what the rest of the industrialized world pays in health care costs and they insure everyone
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Yea and the rest of the worlds health care services are garbage compared to ours. You have people in Britian pulling out their own teeth for goodness sake.
 
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saxvol said:
Yea and the rest of the worlds health care services are garbage compared to ours. You have people in Britian pulling out their own teeth for goodness sake.
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Don't know about that, but Harley Street in London is famous for private practice doctors and over 2,500 throughout the UK. These doctors make a living off people that don't want to participate in socialized medicine.
 
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The $450 billion spent in Iraq so far could've helped out a little.
 
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Dumb question for you smart folks out there:

Does the "uninsured" # count those receiving Medicaid or the state child healthcare coverage?
 
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saxvol said:
And before the war started what were we doing with all that extra cash?
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most of the debt from the Iraq War has never been paid. That's one of the main reasons the Canadian dollar is worth more then the U.S. When Bush took over as President, the Canadian dollar was worth 2/3 the U.S. dollar.
 
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saxvol said:
Yea and the rest of the worlds health care services are garbage compared to ours. You have people in Britian pulling out their own teeth for goodness sake.
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Actually there's a growing number of uninsured people who are having elective surgery are going to places like India because they can pay 1/10 the cost for the same procedure.
 
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oklavol said:
Actually there's a growing number of uninsured people who are having elective surgery are going to places like India because they can pay 1/10 the cost for the same procedure.
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You may have stats to back that up, but that seems completely preposterous to me. If you can afford to travel to India for elective surgery, why wouldn't you be able to afford at least major medical insurance?
 
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That article was interesting . . . but I couldn't help but shake my head when I read...

Whiplash was just the first agony that Kevin Miller, 45, suffered in a car accident last July. The second was sticker shock. The self-employed and uninsured chiropractor from Eunice, La., learned that it would cost $90,000 to get the herniated disk in his neck repaired. So, over the objections of his doctors, he turned to the Internet and made an appointment with Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok
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. . . of all people who should know better.
 
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How many of those 47mil are making choices with their money and have hc at the bottom of the list?
 
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when i was unemployed I got health insurance for $50 a month. sure it didn't pay much for the average doctors visit, but it would have paid 100% of any major hospital bills up to $5 mil. if hillary really does win and a) raises the capital gains rate, b) raises the maximum tax rate to 60%, and c) spends trillions on universal healthcare, this country will be in the toilet for the next 20 years. truly scary.
 
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droski said:
when i was unemployed I got health insurance for $50 a month. sure it didn't pay much for the average doctors visit, but it would have paid 100% of any major hospital bills up to $5 mil. if hillary really does win and a) raises the capital gains rate, b) raises the maximum tax rate to 60%, and c) spends trillions on universal healthcare, this country will be in the toilet for the next 20 years. truly scary.
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Huckabee increased spending at Arkansas by 6 times. I think we are screwed either way.
 
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droski said:
when i was unemployed I got health insurance for $50 a month.
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Exactly . . . There are cheap short term options out there. People just have gotten so used to health insurance being tied to their employer that they don't consider other options.
 
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GAVol said:
Exactly . . . There are cheap short term options out there. People just have gotten so used to health insurance being tied to their employer that they don't consider other options.
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That is a real solid point. People need to be educated on the other options and made aware they should invetigate other options.
 
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If you want to see real tax and healthcare reform, just eliminate employee withholding and make everybody shop for their own insurance and stroke a check each month. Within 6 months competition would either bring down prices or there would be protests in the streets.
 
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