Women are suffering from lack of healthcare insurance.

[liberalnurse]

I pulled this off my Ohio Nursing Association web site. I don't hear much at all regarding the lack of insurance coverage for women. Actually, I think these stats are low.

fact sheet:

Women - the Uninsured View full results for Health Care Survey
Health insurance remains a critical issue for women - nationally 16 million women lack coverage. To provide up-to-date statistics on women's coverage at the state level, the Kaiser Family Foundation is releasing a new fact sheet on women's health coverage for the years 2001 and 2002.

Nationally, 17.7% of women ages 18 to 64 are uninsured. Among the states, the uninsured rate varies considerably. Among low-income women with incomes below 200% of poverty, more than one-third are uninsured.

> Minnesota has the lowest percentage of uninsured women (7.9%), while Texas has the highest (28.3%).
> Rates of uninsured low-income women in the states range from a low of 18.9% in Massachusetts to a high of 50% in Texas.

Medicaid provides coverage for more than one in five low-income women nationally.

> Medicaid's role for women varies significantly among states. In Massachusetts, Vermont, Tennessee, Rhode Island, and the District of Columbia, more than one-third of low-income women have Medicaid, compared to Nevada, Colorado, New Hampshire, Wyoming, and Texas where fewer than 15% of low-income women are covered.

Private insurance is the dominant form of coverage for women, providing coverage for nearly three-quarters nationwide.
> New Hampshire has the highest percentage of privately insured women (84.5%) and New Mexico has the lowest (62%).
> Private coverage is less common among low-income women. 42.6% of low-income women in the U.S. have private health insurance, with a low of 35% in Alaska, New Mexico, and the District of Columbia.

The fact sheet is available at http://www.kff.org/womenshealth/1613-03.cfm .

For the latest state-by-state data on health insurance coverage, health status, and a wide range of other health topics, please visit www.statehealthfacts.org .



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[havocmom]

1. And when women don't get care, children suffer

Thanks for the links. This is important. The nation cannot survive the neglect of its people. With more women in jobs without benifits, they are working, needing child care and unable to meet their own basic needs due to low pay.

Yes, men's standard of living is slipping, but women are in real trouble and ignoring their health care bode ill for our future

[KG]

2. one day, and i hope it is soon, this country will scream for

a universal/single payer/socialized type health care.

but, not sure what it will take for the majority of americans to see how they are being screwed by privitized health care.

[loftycity]

3. A note on Minnesota--The percent is much higher for lack of insurance

In everyday encounters with women at work and etc. I run into to more professional women whodo not have any insurance. This state is good at propaganda. Conservatives in sheep clothing.
I know women attorneys, sales people, business owners etc.
This state's discrimination is disqusting..single women are very hard hit,and that would be the case in most of the US. I have had doctors from out of state comment on what a horrible low ranking system we do have and they comment that it really surprised them.
Minnesota should not get good points, the state is advertising on the status it had 10 or 15 years ago. Not now.