According to this 16% of the population is uninsured, but 47% of hte uninsured have over 200% of the poverty income level and only half are uninsured for an entire year.
At the link in my post 1 there is alink to statistics on the long term uninsured:
The Long-Term Uninsured
http://www.aspe.hhs.gov/health/long-term-uninsured04/index.htm
41% of the uninsured are 18 to 34 year old -- i.e. they are most likely uninsured by choice, figuring that the odds are in their favor. And if something happens to them, we have to pay.
The only way to eliminate this uninsured group is to make them pay for their medical expenses for the rest of their lives, deducted from their paychecks. That is the only thing that would motivate them to get insurance.
And of course, if only the sick get insurance, the rates are astronomical.
Who in FReeperdom knows what this means? If insurance is "job-based" it isn't private. I pay for private health insurance because my employer doesn't pay for it. So they are proposing a tax credit if my employer pays my insurance OR if I pay my insurance? Which is it?
And what do either of those have to do with insuring illegals and anchor babies. "Private health insurance" doesn't pay for much that isn't catasrophic. Are they, whoever they is, proposing I should help subsidize a health plan with more benefits than my private insurance that I also subsize 100%? Is there some incentive here that I shouldn't quit my high-premium insurance and get on the dole with better benfits?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
This sort of income redistribution has worked just really well, hasn't it? Since LBJ began the Great Society plan back in 1967, the country has spent at least 7 trillion dollars to address the ills of the downtrodden. And look at all the success.
Well, it must be behind me. Maybe over there. Perhaps in the closet. Oh, the Black family unit has been broken into smithereens? How did that happen? Single motherhood has skyrocketed? Well, why, I just don't understand.
In 1967, the population of the U.S. was probably about 250 million. Do the math, it's a significant amount of money per capita that we're all paying for no results. THEN, take the next step and consider who pays and who does not pay for these programs. The "rich" pay, i.e., those who are trying to make a living. Net, if you are a responsible person, with a job, trying to support your family, multiply the number of folks in your household by the product of 7 trillion/40, further divided by 12 and you'll get the ugly answer to what each member of your household is paying the government to support the thugs, slugs and reprobates in your neighborhood.
None of the above takes into account the cost of additional police protection and the cost to recover from the effects of crime.
Think about it.