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
> [log in to unmask]
> =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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