please don't hate me-I involved the Democratic congressman and senators as well as Republican for NOT being aggressive enough.the latest results from the CDC
http://www.emaxhealth.com/1506/cdc-number-americans-without-health-insurance-coverage-increases(And while my values are from 2007-08,they have increase since then)
My Letter
http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2010/06/24/opinion/doc4c237cf38e032065914660.txtLETTER: ‘On medical coverage’
Published: Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:01 AM CDT
To the Editor,
One aspect of American families that has not improved with the election of Barack Obama is the lack of medical coverage. One out of three people (33.1 percent) under the age of 65 were uninsured for some or all of 2007-2008. Four out of five individuals (79.2 percent) who went without health insurance during 2007-2008 were from working families: 69.7 percent were in families with a worker who was employed full-time, and 9.5 percent were in families with a worker who was employed part-time. Although racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to be uninsured, whites accounted for nearly half (49.8 percent) of the uninsured in 2007-2008. Businesses are suffering too. Insurance premiums increased 73 percent between 2000 and 2005, and per capita costs are expected to keep rising.
Unfortunately, this is because both political groups have tried so hard to satisfy insurance companies that they have neglected the citizens, the patients.
Universal Health Care exists in almost all European countries. The United States is the only industrialized country in the world without a universal health insurance system. U.S. health care spending is approximately $2 trillion per year, or $6,697 per person. The United States continues to spend significantly more on health care than other countries in the world. Administrative costs account for 31 percent of all health care expenditures in the United States. The average overhead for U.S. private health insurers is 11.7 percent. Ninety percent of Americans believe the American health care system needs fundamental changes or needs to be completely rebuilt. Two-thirds of Americans believe the federal government should guarantee universal health care for all citizens.
The obvious cure for this increasing American problem is offered by Physicians for a National Health Program. This allows adequate humane health care with much less paperwork. Rather than try to elaborate on this, I’m referring you to an excellent resource sponsored by PNHP (
http://www.pnhp.org/publications/proposal-of-the-physicians-working-group-for-single-payer-national-health-insurance ). The end results is better health care for patients and more satisfied work environments for physicians, nurses and ancillary health care workers. This would allow an increase in staff for local hospitals and more time with patients.
As a members of the medical field AND a patient more recently, I can see the benefit of this method. Please review PNHP’s program — and if you agree, contact your elected officials to initiate this program in Texas. Our friends, relatives and neighbors are depending on it.
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