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.  

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.

 
Kendall Corbett
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-----Original Message-----
From: ken barber [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
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,=20
>
>
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=20
> Wyoming INstitute for Disabilities -WIND
> PO Box 4298
> Laramie, WY 82071
> (307) 766-2853
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> =20
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kat [mailto:[log in to unmask]]=20
> 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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