Health Insurance is not in crises. Everything is fine. Additionally the economy isn’t in recession, its just napping, don’t forget the economy ate alot of turkey for lunch and turkey has that chemical that makes you sleepy. I believe it is called stouffers.
14,000 Americans are losing their health insurance per day! I am posting an important piece on the fact that the lack of health insurance is become an epidemic. Of course so is poverty but there are only two things that humans need. Actually three if you count reading this blog. Food and medicine. Shelter is nice too though I believe that living in my apartment in Boca Raton (Mizner Park specifically) might be a step up below homelessness. ( Mizner Park Apartments is the worst place to live in America. I advise a diet of broken glass shards as a more healthy way to live. Its not that there are roaches or drug dealers here, its that the roaches are drug dealers and worse they are on steroids.)
Sorry for the diversion. It is critical to remember especially now that Huey Long (ok I am not about to quote Huey Long I am not that crazy yet)… One more try at a serious blog post.
In these times it is with a singular human quality that we should all remember our fellow man and if we are staying ahead of the recession lets try to help everyone get fed and health coverage. I am dead serious. People are going hungry and really suffering, true you wouldn’t know it by watching the news but take it from me when I tell you how bad it is. Why? Because I talk to people all over Florida. I own a health insurance brokerage and people call me and tell me what is going on. Vote for health care reform and if your congressman/senator doesn’t support health reform and simply votes against without working on a solution don’t vote for him/her. I don’t care what party they are. The health care system is bankrupting faster than a single payer system would and that is just scary. People are so greedy that the health care industry is all America does for a living anymore and if you are not in it good luck with your career in law.
Even when the economy was growing, 46 million people in America did not have any health insurance. Since the recession began, an estimated 4 million additional Americans have lost their health insurance and 2 million have become uninsured. The recent turmoil in the job market is likely increasing the number of uninsured at the rate of 14,000 a day. And yet, congressional conservatives opposed efforts to stop the erosion of our health care system and help millions of Americans hold on to the coverage they have or get it for the first time. As many as 14,000 Americans are losing health coverage each day Many Americans did not have any health insurance even before the recession began.
During the six years of the last economic expansion, the number of uninsured Americans grew by 7 million, reaching 46 million in 2007.
That number is almost certainly higher today because the economy has lost 3.6 million jobs since the start of 2008
A one percentage point rise in the national unemployment rate causes 2.4 million people to lose employer-sponsored health coverage, according to Urban Institute researchers.
Of these people, 1 million rely on Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program and 1.1 million end up uninsured. Since the Census Bureau’s figures for uninsured Americans were collected in the spring of
2007, the unemployment rate has grown from 4.4 percent to 7.6 percent.
As a result, an estimated 3.5 million people have lost their health insurance and are now uninsured. Moreover, the loss of coverage is accelerating. The unemployment rate grew by 0.8 percentage points in December and January alone, implying that nearly 900,000 people became uninsured in these two months. That’s about 100,000 people a week, or 14,000 people a day. The rapid growth in the number of uninsured Americans will continue as long as the job market remains in a free fall.
Center for American Progress Action Fund | Health Care in Crisis
The number of newly uninsured would be much higher if it weren’t for people enrolling in Medicaid and CHIP. Rising unemployment rates since the last Census report imply that an additional 3.2 million Americans now rely on Medicaid or SCHIP. Congress recently provided more resources for Medicaid and CHIP, but if it had not, states would have been forced to cut eligibility for these programs. Without federal assistance, many people now on Medicaid or CHIP would likely become uninsured as well.
Conservatives oppose steps to protect coverage for nearly 40 million Americans
With 14,000 people losing health insurance every day, expanding coverage is an urgent challenge. In recent weeks, President Barack Obama and Congress have enacted a series of investments in health care that, together, will cover or help protect the health coverage of 38 million people. These measures include:
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