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Finding Answers About the Uninsured, Pt.1 – What do we know?

A very informative article has been posted on eMaxHealth.com presenting the views of various experts to explain the causes of our current crises and plight of the nearly 50 million Americans who don’t have any health insurance. They also debate what the best remedy should be. A few weeks ago, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiated and sponsored a campaign in behalf of the victims in that segment. It was called “Cover the Uninsured Week” and was held from April 27 through May 3. The purpose was to make the public aware of this great problem and to get citizens involved to do something about those without health insurance in our country. Forums were held and seminars were offered all around the nation. In addition to raising public awareness for support, information was disseminated to assist victims in securing subsidized (sometimes free) health insurance and to educate small businesses to enable them to find avenues to which they could afford to offer coverage to their employees.

With so much confusion and speculation about those without health insurance, the many well-meaning and concerned groups like the “Robert Wood” and the Commonwealth Fund still have a daunting task ahead. Perhaps the best place to start would be to scope the size of the problem. The latest large-scale study, conducted by the US Census Bureau came up with a 47 million figure of those without health insurance. Of course, these figures go back to over a year ago and don’t account for the time since then and the accelerating rate of worsening that appears to be the trend. Most likely the number is much higher today and still growing.

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