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Where Do Those Without Health Insurance Live?

Where Do Those Without Health Insurance Live?
In the healthcare debate currently underway, Democrats have generally
supported plans aimed at assuring all Americans have some health
insurance, while nearly all Republicans have opposed such efforts.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The New York Times and the Census Bureau sought to find out where do
those without health insurance live? For the first time, in a survey
taken last year and released in September, over all it found that 9.9
percent of children lack any health insurance, half the rate for
adults under 65.

Children in Texas, a red state represented by two Republican senators,
John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchinson, both of whom oppose the public
option and the state with the most uninsured, are more than eight
times as likely not to have it than children in Massachusetts, a state
represented by two Democratic senators, John Kerry and the late Ted
Kennedy, with the least number of uninsured.

Those who lack health insurance now are far more likely to live in
states that usually vote Republican — the states whose senators and
representatives are least likely to support healthcare reform and will
undoubted choose to opt-out of a government run health insurance
scheme. Denying heath insurance to the people they allegedly represent
is a bedrock, conservative value.

In the healthcare debate currently underway, Democrats have generally
supported plans aimed at assuring all Americans have some health
insurance, while nearly all Republicans have opposed such efforts. If
healthcare reform is successfully passed with the public option and
includes the opt-out provision, I will enjoy the visage of Republican
members of Congress struggle to explain to their uninsured
constituents why they voted to deny them access to healthcare, all in
the name of political ideology.

http://fromtheleft.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/where-do-those-without-health-i
nsurance-live/

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