i guess i'd be interested and concerned about florida.
got to be some older ones down there more so than
calif and texas. when you get a older population there
is need for the coverage.
--- "Kendall D. Corbett" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ken,
>
> Not that I can find, but there is some data in a
> table that shows the
> states with the highest number of people without
> health insurance. As I
> quickly scanned the table, it looked like the states
> with the highest
> number of uninsured citizens were, for the most
> part, in the West, with
> a few exceptions (notably Florida). However, two of
> the states showing
> the highest numbers of people without health
> insurance were Texas and
> California, which have pretty heterogeneous
> populations, so I can't say
> that it's just "younger" states. =20
>
> Alaska and Wyoming were also close to the top of the
> list in uninsured
> people, which may be related to several factors.
> The main factor I see
> in Wyoming is that some people live long distances
> from a doctor, or
> hospital, or other healthcare facility, so they may
> not bother with the
> expense of insurance. An analogy that comes to mind
> would be not having
> a car if you aren't going to be near a gas station.
>
> =20
> Kendall Corbett
> [log in to unmask]
> =20
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ken barber [mailto:[log in to unmask]]=20
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 4:21 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: A Small Amplification....
>
> DOES IT OR ANY OTHER articles ever point out how
> many
> of these are choosing not to have it becouse they
> are
> young and relativly healthy.
> i never had that option, but, i know that some do
> not think they need it.
>
> --- "Kendall D. Corbett" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Found info on the number and percentage of
> Americans
> > without health
> > insurance on the Census web page,=3D20
> >
> >
>
http://www.census.gov/hhes/hlthins/hlthin02/hlth02asc.html.
>
> > Below is
> > the first paragraph from that page. Since these
> > figures cover people
> > who were not covered during the entire year, the
> > figure for people who
> > spent a portion of the year without health
> insurance
> > coverage is quite
> > likely higher.
> >
> > "The share of the population without health
> > insurance rose in 2002, the
> > second consecutive annual increase. An estimated
> > 15.2 percent of the
> > population or 43.6 million people were without
> > health insurance coverage
> > during the entire year in 2002, up from 14.6
> percent
> > in 2001, an
> > increase of 2.4 million people."
> >
> >
> > Kendall Corbett
> > Coordinator of Consumer Activities=3D20
> > Wyoming INstitute for Disabilities -WIND
> > PO Box 4298
> > Laramie, WY 82071
> > (307) 766-2853
> > [log in to unmask]
> > =3D20
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kat [mailto:[log in to unmask]]=3D20
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 1:19 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: A Small Amplification....
> >
> > I don't think we were wroing to go over there; I
> > just think we need to
> > get the mew government in place and get out of
> > there. Bush is spreading
> > things too thinly now, and needs to pay more
> > attention to what's going
> > on at home.
> >
> > We are losing jobs by the thousands. My boss told
> > me over one-half of
> > all Americans are without medical insurance of any
> > sort. That worries
> > me far more than the fate of the Kurds. If we
> can't
> > looik after our
> > own, how can we look after others?
> >
> > And for your information, my boss is Director of
> > Compensation and
> > Benfits and so is in a position to know this
> stuff.
> > Also, he's very
> > conservative and so is unlikely to present a
> liberal
> > view.
> >
> > Kat
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ken barber <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Oct 16, 2003 4:09 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: A Small Amplification....
> >
> > kat,
> > have you not heard that the electricity is now
> up
> > and up consistantly for more people than it was
> > before
> > the war. i dare say not becouse only one news org
> > here
> > in the states will report it and you are not
> > watching
> > that one. this is only one element of
> > infrastructure,
> > but another is the schools. more kids are in
> school
> > now and in new schools than before the war.
> (girls
> > are allowed now.) a georgia democratic
> congressman
> > made a trip over to see why things were going bad
> > over
> > there. he returned to atlanta and criticised the
> > news
> > orgs for not reporting how well things were going.
> > he
> > accused abc, nbc, cbs and cnn of "being
> responsible
> > for some of the deaths of our soldiers by not
> > reporting accurately." a couple of democratic reps
> > from a couple other states that was on this trip
> did
> > similar reports in there districts. i saw an
> > interview
> > with the main man in the weapons search (wish i
> > could
> > remember his name, keep thinking the last name is
> > kelley, but not sure) couple weeks ago telling
> tony
> > snow on the fox report that he found it amazing
> how
> > little of the evidence of the fact that the wmds
> > were
> > there and moved ever got to the news. he sited in
> > his
> > report to congress that 3 scientist had some of
> the
> > biological stuff in thier home refridgerators.
> > what worries me if we can't lay hands on this
> > stuff,
> > it will wind up in isreal or maybe in manhattan. i
> > am
> > not going to forget the kurds in 88 and all the
> u.n.
> > reports that they were there and yes, the clinton
> > admin. reports that they were there. i am afraid
> > that
> > america has another rude awakening coming our way.
> > forget history and it will remind you.
> >
> > --- kat <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > of the post re: Bush I just forwarded to the
> list.
> > > I tried to put this in but
> > > it made the email too long for St. Johns to
> > accept.
> > > So I'll say it here in a
> > > separate email.
> > >
> > > I saw the need to rid Iraq of Saddam Hussein and
> > his
> > > sons. They were purely
> > > evil men, brutal murderers and so forth.
> However
> > I
>
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