Found info on the number and percentage of Americans without health
insurance on the Census web page, 

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 
Wyoming INstitute for Disabilities -WIND
PO Box 4298
Laramie, WY 82071
(307) 766-2853
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kat [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
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
> think Bush's reason -
> WMDs - have been invalidated by the fact that we
> still can't find any and
> we're still over there and we can't seem to get the
> infrastructure back up
> and operational.  We need to fix the technology ASAP
> and get the hell out of
> there.  We are losing too many lives and too much
> money.
>
> As for the economy, well... you all know  my views.
>
> Now I must get off to work and take a management
> training course in Inclusion
> in the Workplace.  Whee!
>
> Kat


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