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Obama said:"We are not a nation that accepts nearly 46 million uninsured men, women and children,"
GIVEN: Census bureau says 10 million of the 46 million "uninsured' are not citizens leaving 36 million
Source: Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009 - Income & Wealth - Newsroom - U.S. Census Bureau
GIVEN: 14 million are eligible for Medicaid..but they are counted as "uninsured" . leaving 22 million
Source: http://coverageforall.org/pdf/BC-BS_Uninsured-America.pdf
GIVEN:18 million counted as 'Uninsured" make over $50,000, are under 34 and pay an average of $1,000 a year out of pocket instead of taking employers insurance.
Source: CRISIS OF THE UNINSURED: 2009
That leaves 4 million truly uninsured that need coverage. 98.7% ARE covered.. of those that want coverage.
So do you believe there are 46 million "UNINSURED as Obama used to pass Obamacare?
Is it right that these 4 million that truly need coverage because many of you defend ambulance chasing millionaire lawyers?
You have no problem with tanning salons being taxed 10% because they cause cancer!
YET you defenders of millionaire lawyers don't want a 10% tax on their $200 billion a year which could provide a $4,000 a year premium for the truly
4 million uninsured that want insurance?
YOU people would refuse 4 million people coverage in order to defend millionaire lawyers??
What is this world coming to that you have NO compassion for those that don't have insurance!
AND at the same time YOU encourage hospitals to mark up sometimes 6,000% the claims sent to Medicare/insurance companies to cover expenses of the uninsured?
Are you people not only inept at arithmetic but heartless and cruel while defending the millionaire ambulance chasing lawyers that are the direct cause for
over $850 billion a year in needless duplicate test,etc. "DEFENSIVE MEDICINE"???
In a recent Gallup survey, physicians attributed 34 percent of overall healthcare costs to defensive medicine and 21 percent of their practice to be defensive in nature. Specifically, they estimated that 35 percent of diagnostic tests, 29 percent of lab tests, 19 percent of hospitalizations, 14 percent of prescriptions, and 8 percent of surgeries were performed to avoid lawsuits.
Liability reform has been estimated to result in anywhere from a 5 percent to a 34 percent reduction in medical expenditures by reducing defensive medicine practices, with estimates of savings from $54 billion to $650 billion.
FOLKS simple math: Current health care expenditures $2.5 trillion.
34% of the $2.5 trillion according to the experts is due to "defensive medicine" OR $850 BILLION a year!
GIVEN: Census bureau says 10 million of the 46 million "uninsured' are not citizens leaving 36 million
Source: Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009 - Income & Wealth - Newsroom - U.S. Census Bureau
GIVEN: 14 million are eligible for Medicaid..but they are counted as "uninsured" . leaving 22 million
Source: http://coverageforall.org/pdf/BC-BS_Uninsured-America.pdf
GIVEN:18 million counted as 'Uninsured" make over $50,000, are under 34 and pay an average of $1,000 a year out of pocket instead of taking employers insurance.
Source: CRISIS OF THE UNINSURED: 2009
That leaves 4 million truly uninsured that need coverage. 98.7% ARE covered.. of those that want coverage.
So do you believe there are 46 million "UNINSURED as Obama used to pass Obamacare?
Is it right that these 4 million that truly need coverage because many of you defend ambulance chasing millionaire lawyers?
You have no problem with tanning salons being taxed 10% because they cause cancer!
YET you defenders of millionaire lawyers don't want a 10% tax on their $200 billion a year which could provide a $4,000 a year premium for the truly
4 million uninsured that want insurance?
YOU people would refuse 4 million people coverage in order to defend millionaire lawyers??
What is this world coming to that you have NO compassion for those that don't have insurance!
AND at the same time YOU encourage hospitals to mark up sometimes 6,000% the claims sent to Medicare/insurance companies to cover expenses of the uninsured?
Are you people not only inept at arithmetic but heartless and cruel while defending the millionaire ambulance chasing lawyers that are the direct cause for
over $850 billion a year in needless duplicate test,etc. "DEFENSIVE MEDICINE"???
In a recent Gallup survey, physicians attributed 34 percent of overall healthcare costs to defensive medicine and 21 percent of their practice to be defensive in nature. Specifically, they estimated that 35 percent of diagnostic tests, 29 percent of lab tests, 19 percent of hospitalizations, 14 percent of prescriptions, and 8 percent of surgeries were performed to avoid lawsuits.
Liability reform has been estimated to result in anywhere from a 5 percent to a 34 percent reduction in medical expenditures by reducing defensive medicine practices, with estimates of savings from $54 billion to $650 billion.
FOLKS simple math: Current health care expenditures $2.5 trillion.
34% of the $2.5 trillion according to the experts is due to "defensive medicine" OR $850 BILLION a year!