Nearly 59 million lack health insurance: CDC

[marmar]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly 59 million Americans went without health insurance coverage for at least part of 2010, many of them with conditions or diseases that needed treatment, federal health officials said on Tuesday.

They said 4 million more Americans went without insurance in the first part of 2010 than during the same time in 2008.

"Both adults and kids lost private coverage over the past decade," Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told a news briefing.

The findings have implications for U.S. healthcare reform efforts. A bill passed in March promises to get health insurance coverage to 32 million Americans who currently lack coverage.

But Republicans who just took control of the House of Representatives last week have vowed to derail the new law by cutting off the funds for it, and some want to repeal it. Experts from both sides predict gridlock in Congress for the next two years in implementing healthcare reform's provisions. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101110/hl_nm/us_usa_healthcare_insurance

[aquart]

1. This is mass murder.

[xchrom]

2. recommend

[ipaint]

3. By the time the industry written reform bill actually kicks in it won't even cover half of those

who need care. Add that to the people who can't afford to pay for their portion of the ins plus deductibles plus co pays, then add the massive numbers who will need to be rolled into an underfunded medicaid system as a result of the continuing depression in the lower classes and you get massive fail.

[billlll]

4. HOUSECALLS in england and germany.... Nationalized HC provides

What our greedheads refuse to do.

Total nationalization to make them behave is all that will work. Our drs are terrible.

48 nations outlive us.

[mdmc]

5. Millions more have insurance but lack affordable medical care..

[jannyk]

6. With a $10,000 p.a. deductible each, we may as well be uninsured.

Any visit we make to a health provider comes out of our pocket - therefore we go very rarely. We stock up on antibiotics in Mexico each year and self medicate when needed.

How many millions have Insurance but still can't afford medical care? That's a figure I would be very interested in knowing.

[marmar]

7. Do you need a prescription in order to get antibiotics in Mexico?

[jannyk]

8. You did not until this summer. But there are still many places in Baja

...which is where we go, that still let you have them without. Like all laws in Mx, this has a certain 'looseness' to it. The other non-scrip 'best seller' down there is Viagra :eyes:

[Stinky The Clown]

9. When Nixon first proposed this sort of healthcare system, there were 29 million uninsured.

We're making progress, at least by one measure.

[Vinca]

10. You can't just pass a law that says everyone is allowed to buy it,

when more and more can't afford it. We need everyone covered and it needs to be paid for out of the common funds.

[dkf]

11. It beats me how a person at the poverty level can afford to use their medical insurance.

[w8liftinglady]

12. over 1/10th of that is MY lovely state...free market,ya know

"It's the worker's choice whether to have insurance"

...and I see the outcome at work.It ain't pretty,folks.