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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
We allow the talking heads and politicans to get our underwear all knotted up over this issue.
- The cost of healthcare in this country is escalating at a rate so rapidly that it will even more seriously reduce the number of people who have healthcare insurance to alarmingly high rates in as little as a decade. We already spend twice as much per capita for healthcare than any other country in the world. The cost to our economy is already too great and further cost growth is unsustainable.
- About 20% of our population has no healthcare insurance whatsoever and that number is growing at the rate of 14,000 people per day. The U.S. is the only developed country in the world that does not provide for the healthcare for all of it's citizens.
- Statistics demonstrate that, regardless of the claims made by partisans and politicians, the health of the American citizenry does not compare favorably with other countries in the developed world. For as much as we spend, we aren't getting our money's worth.
Does it get any more complicated than that? We need to do something and we need to do it NOW. If those that oppose all healthcare reform because of the "public option", then what is their alternative proposal?
I find it abhorrent to think that one of our political parties has presented and has had accepted fully 161 amendments to the proposed legislation in the committees controlled by their opposition party, but they still intend to vote 100% against any proposed reforms. Why? Someone explain how that kind of partisan and purely political behavior is in the best interests of the American people. |
Actually I have to question at minimum much of your math !!
According to the census bureau, some 35.9 million americans are uninsured PLUS 9.7 million NON americans who live here. The President keeps confusing the issue with his rhetoric where he adds them all together and calls them ALL americans ! In any case, I dont think that 35.9 equates to 20%
Secondly, could you please supply the source of your 14.000 per day ? That eqates to almost a million folks every 60 days !!!
Also if as mentioned that figure is coming from folks losing their jobs, I am pretty sure that the stimulus bill supplies MUCH MONETARY relief for COBRA coverage.
The percentage is more like 90% of all AMERICANS have insurance !!!