Health coverage debacle continues
Isn't it about time we funded health insurance for all people rather than spending hundreds of billions abroad on frivolous wars? Isn't it only a matter of time that the poor who have nothing turn into home-grown "terrorists" because they're driven to a life that's beyond despair? According to this New York Times story:
The number of people without health insurance shot up last year by 2.4 million, the largest increase in a decade, raising the total to 43.6 million, as health costs soared and many workers lost coverage provided by employers, the Census Bureau reported today.
The increase brought the proportion of people who were uninsured to 15.2 percent, from 14.6 percent in 2001. The figure remained lower than the recent peak of 16.3 percent in 1998.
...The proportion of Americans with insurance from employers declined to 61.3 percent, from 62.6 percent in 2001 and 63.6 percent in 2000. The number of people with employer-sponsored coverage fell last year by 1.3 million, to 175.3 million, even as the total population grew by 3.9 million.
Bowling for Columbine really puts things in perspective when Michael Moore heads north across the border to interview Canadians and why they think Americans are so much more violent...what was it, some 1500 murder a year compared to a few dozen (I think it was) in Canada. Unbelievable!