47 Million Uninsured – Let’s Break That Down
by PRRussell on Aug.06, 2009, under ♥ My Personal Blog
Why is Healthcare Reform as it stands now from the Obama White House so unpopular? The fundamental problem President Obama is facing is that 84% of Americans are happy/satisfied with their current health insurance coverage. Remember….. the quality of care has never been an issue. The quality has been high and Americans are satisfied across the board witht he quality. Americans are very happy with the choices they currently have in the healthcare system. Don’t like what your doctor wants to do? Wonder if there’s another option rather than surgery or drug treatment? No problem…… get a second opinion. Get a third or a fourth! Diagnosed with a deadly cancer and you want to choose a specialized cancer center to go to for help…. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, for instance? Sure. Go wherever you want to go and see which ever doctor you want to see. So, let’s make it clear, the quality and freedom of America’s healthcare has never been under question. The issue is coverage. Insurance coverage for all. So back on point….. here are some numbers you need to know:
84% of Americans are happy/satisfied with their current healthcare coverage
47 million Anericans are uninsured
Lets break the 47 million down:
10 million of the 47 million are illegal aliens (that’s 20%)
3/8 of the 47 million make 50K or more a year (thus they are able to afford it but choose to not be covered for various personal reasons such as religious, good health, etc)
1/5 of the 47 million make 75K or more a year (again, this group is able to afford coverage but exercise the freedom to choose to not be covered for various reasons)
20% of the 47 million qualify for Medicare or other programs but have not enrolled (my guess would be because they don’t want or need to. Why wouldn’t you enroll? I don’t know)
10% (roughly 10%) are the working poor…. they do not qualify for Medicaid or any other government program and they do not earn enough to be able to afford coverage
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292 (roughly) million Americans are happy with their coverage, can afford it but choose not to have it or qualify for Medicare/other govt programs but have not enrolled
10 million are illegal alieans , not a citizen, that do not pay one dime in taxes to help support this country yet they do still get healthcare through emergency rooms
5 million are legitimally “stuck” and “locked” out of the system b/c they don’t qualify for govt programs and they don’t earn enough to purchase their own coverage
The fundamental problem that President Obama is facing is that even though most Americans don’t know these figures they sense it. They have a sense that the vast majority of the American citizens are satisfied with their coverage and the quality of care or simply choose to not be covered b/c they are healthy and feel they don’t need it or for religious reasons and other various reasons. Another reason, of course, is they are terrified of the govt being in control of their health.
So for 5 million ppl the Obama White House justifies taking over the healthcare system and running it themselves and forcing us to pay for it. It doesn’t look right, it doesn’t feel right, it doesn’t smell right….. and the American people know it.
Wouldn’t it be more cost efficient and smarter to design something or expand a current government program to target the 5 million left out so they can have coverage?
What about the 16% that are unhappy/dissatisfied with their coverage? I don’t know. I’m sure something could be done to help these ppl, too. I can tell you this: I have had periods in my life when I was incredibly unhappy with my insurance coverage. I have had periods when I was incredibly happy with my insurance coverage. Currently, I LOVE my coverage. I TREASURE my coverage. I was in that 16% a few different times…. thank God above I had choices and I could get to the place I am now…. happy with my coverage. Now I am part of the 84%. That’s the beauty of America (for now at least).
President Obama sees the polls….. a vast number of polls that says the American people do not want the healthcare reform he is proposing yet on August 4th, 2009 during a speech in Indiana he promised healthcare reform will be passed by the end of the year with complete disregard for what the majority wants because he says we “need it”. He says we “need it”. Think about that. Last time I checked he was not my Daddy and I was not 5 years old. I think I can decide for myself what I need or what I want or what I like or what I don’t like. Trust me, the last thing I need right now is to lose my private and wonderful healthcare coverage (that helps me manage 5 chronic autoimmune diseases) and be forced onto a govt run healthcare plan that will have the govt controlling my health. In my case, at age 39, that means controlling my life, literally. My living, breathing body in their hands. President Obama himself has put down the everyday, average American citizens that are going to town hall meetings and expressing a dislike or distrust for his proposed plan. He says we “gripe and complain” (in the same Indiana speech mentioned above) His White House has put down everyday, average American citizens for disliking or distrusting his proposed reform by telling us and the entire world that our anger, frustration, fear is not real. It’s “manufactured”. We are simply doing the bidding of far right wing groups. As if I have the time or the desire to do the bidding of those groups. I don’t like those groups, why would I do their bidding? The Democratic Congress has put down everyday, average American citizens who dislike or distrust the proposed reform plan by teeling us and the whole world that this is an “astroturf” movement. A fake grass-roots movement. As if the everday American is incapable of standing up for what we believe in. They have called us a “mob”, “crazy” and eluded to stupid and racists. The Obama White House has posted a request on the White House Blog asking that American citizens send any “fishy” material they receive in emails or see on the Internet to the White House. Apparently, the Obama White House doesn’t think twice about trampling all over the 1st Amendment, Freedom of Speech. I have never been reduced to tears because I felt my President hated me, could care less what I thought or wanted and would purposely walk all over my right to freely express myself. That is, not until now. Are you afraid? You should be. Even if you’re a hard core Democrat and love President Obama and all his proposals you better be afraid. If he gets away with treating the American people this way then one day you will be on the receiving end and you will be crying….. and I will remind you that President Obama opened the door for all of it.
Don’t like what I’ve said….. forward this to the White House at flag@whitehouse.gov. I don’t care! As of right now the 1st Amendment still stands…. as of right now I have a right to freely express my thoughts and opinions. Send it in so they can put me on a watch list. I don’t care. Arrogant thugs don’t intimidate me!
1 comment for this entry:
August 6th, 2009 on 4:27 pm
The ripples have started before the major storm. WE MUST BE ON OUR GUARD?
More than ever before, this is the time to ignite the major issues under the feet of all politicians. We need the extraction process of mandated E-Verify composite of the SAVE ACT; to remove illegal labor from the workplace in all businesses Gathered together with local police detainment 287(g), the NO MATCH Social Security law and not to weaken ICE raids. All patriotic Americans who believe in a pro-sovereignty, anti-illegal immigrant must contact their arrogant pandering lawmakers, demanding no amnesty, no chain migration and build the border fence according two original specifications. American Workers and the general public must fight against abhorrent special interest groups, such as US chamber of Commerce, ACLU, La Raza, Council of Foreign Relations, ImmigrationWorksUSA and many more. Say–NO–to ACORN INVOLVED IN THE 2010 CENSUS. Sen. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi are the American Workers worst enemies?
That SANCTUARY STATES like California must rescind illegal immigrant refuge policies. That President Obama’s health care renewal plan—WILL–attract millions more impoverished people from around the world. That they can join with the 20 plus million already here, to get free medical care under the Democrats law now passing through Congress. MY QUESTION IS! WHY SHOULD TAXPAYERS SUPPORT THE ILLEGAL LABOR FOR THE PARASITE CORPORATE ENTITIES ACROSS AMERICA? CALL TODAY AND GIVE POLITICIANS AT 202-224-3121 YOUR CRESCENDO OF FRUSTRATION? THAT’S ALL THEY UNDERSTAND–WHEN THEIR JOBS ARE IN PERIL. GOOGLE NUMBERSUSA AND JUDICIALWATCH TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CORRUPTION AND PROFITEERING FROM BOTH PARTIES. OVERPOPULATION will be the irreversible consequences of mass immigration.