Are you so intellectually without a clue that you don't get it that tens of millions cannot AFFORD to purchase private medical insurance?
not any more they can't. Obamacare prices them out of the market by getting rid of high-deductible plans.
however, of the Uninsured In America:
In 2006, the Census Bureau estimates of the uninsured reached 47 million, representing approximately 16 percent of the population. While this number has dominated nearly all healthcare policy debates, it unfortunately remains a relatively coarse measurement and provides little substantive information about the uninsured that can be used to craft effective policy solutions. For example, it is often assumed—without any quantitative evidence—that nearly all of these uninsured individuals lack coverage because they are unable to afford it...
Drs. June and David O’Neill of the Baruch College, City University of New York use data from a number of surveys to determine what percentage of the nearly 47 million uninsured Americans lack health insurance because they are likely unable to afford it—classifying them as “involuntarily” uninsured. They find that at least 43 percent of Americans in the 18–64 year-old age group have incomes at or above 2.5 times the poverty line, indicating they likely have the means to obtain healthcare coverage and thus may be classified as “voluntarily” uninsured....
Nearly 10 million (9.7) of the 45.7 million uninsured are “not a citizen.”
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More than 17 million of the uninsured make at least $50,000 per year
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The National Center for Policy Analysis estimates that uninsured people get about $1,500 of free health care per year, or $6,000 per family of four.
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An Urban Institute study found that 25 percent of the uninsured already qualify for government health insurance programs.
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The Congressional Budget Office says that 45 percent of the uninsured will be insured within four months. CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin also said that the frequent claim of 40+ million Americans lacking insurance is an “incomplete and potentially misleading picture of the uninsured population.” CBO analysis also found that 36 million people would remain uninsured even if the Senate’s $1.6 trillion health care plan is passed.
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Liberal non-profit Kaiser Family Foundation put the number of uninsured Americans who do not qualify for government programs and make less than $50,000 a year between 8.2 million and 13.9 million.
Are you so intellectually without a clue that you would rather people get rushed to the ER in life threatening conditions which cost a whole lot more than simple early treatment would have cost?
:lol: please. the cost of uninsured in ER's is less than the actual costs of the tort lawsuits themselves (saying nothing of the defensive medicine).
You and many on the far right here get your impressions of society from sources that have nothing to do with the day to day reality of millions of peoples lives.
says the guy who's been protected by the public sector unions for decades