2007-07-20 04:56:35 · 8 answers · asked by Mother 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
President Bush, Hillary Clinton, Michael Moore and much of the mainstream media are incorrect when they claim the number of Americans without health insurance to be 40 to 50 million, with the actual number possibly under 10 million.
"The actual total is open to debate," says BMI analyst Julia Seymour. "But there are millions of people who should be excluded from that [high] tally, including: those who aren't American citizens, people who can afford their own insurance, and people who already qualify for government coverage but haven't signed up."
"Accounting for all those factors, one prominent study places the total for the long-term uninsured as low as 8.2 million – a very different reality than the media and national health care advocates claim," said Seymour.
The BMI report notes the number of the uninsured who are not U.S. citizens is nearly 10 million on its own, invalidating all the claims of 40-plus million "Americans" without health insurance.
In a May 31 speech, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., said: "It's really indefensible that we now have more than 45 million uninsured Americans, 9 million of whom are children, and the vast majority of whom are from working families."
2007-07-20 05:01:39 · answer #1 · answered by Cookies Anyone? 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Michael Moore said 47 million and apparently overstated the number.
Someone else said around 45 million.
Either way, it is too many and is impacting the health care costs for those who are insured.
A govt. study came out a few years ago stating that it spent $80 billion a year to provide medical help to the uninsured, however it would only cost $50 billion to insure all these people.
Go figure......
2007-07-20 12:00:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Subtract 30 million from any number you read. 32 million is the accurate number of illegal aliens in the U.S.. Unfortunately, profit-motivated lobbying groups count them as being without insurance.
To help fix the problem of being uninsured, many HMO's have created discount plans. There are now many quality insurance plans that cost as little as $100 a month. That is less expensive than what employers pay for insurance.
2007-07-20 12:07:32 · answer #3 · answered by a bush family member 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
About 25-30%.
2007-07-20 11:59:58 · answer #4 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
too many. but the problem is those WITH insurance have high premiums and think they are covered but insurance companies do what they can to pay AS LITTLE as possible, so they can turn a profit. which means they won't pay for certain visits and prescriptions.
2007-07-20 12:00:06 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Around 50 million or about 16% of the population. That includes people at EVERY class level.
2007-07-20 12:00:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
to the poster Nostradamos above: Yes, the hospital can't turn you away, but it can do as little as possible to just stabilize you enough to get you out of their hospital....they don't have to do everything possible..only stabilize your condition so that you can leave there...and they charge an arm and a leg just to do that ($2000 or so , at LEAST).
The present system is broken but because of all the money and jobs in insurance industry, no one wants to fix it. Watch Michael Moore's movie "Sicko" and you will see exactly why.
2007-07-20 12:05:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
technically, zero.
if you go to a hospital emergency room YOU CAN'T BE TURNED AWAY.
what this means is that the rest of us end up paying for this with higher and less logical insurance premiums and hospital charges.
the current system simply won't survive - and i run a billing unit in one of the nations largest hospitals...
2007-07-20 12:01:58 · answer #8 · answered by nostradamus02012 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋