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Census on Unsensible Health Insurance, Pt.4 – The demise, if we don’t get involved.

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One more point, and this one not taken from the census. In a report called “Annals of Internal Medicine”, published in the Aug. 5 edition, a recent study delivered more vital facts and warnings. It was found that 1 in every 3 of these people without health insurance has a chronic illness problem. As a result of having no health insurance, they are not receiving needed treatment. Because of this lack of treatment, most of these people will face more serious consequences. Some will require visits to emergency rooms and much-more expensive treatment, costing taxpayers and other consumers a much higher overhead. Many will become ‘disabled’, which means an even greater burden on the public, both financially and in many other significant ways. Others will simply die (as 18,000 are dying every now every year). Certainly, the latter consequence should be condemned loudly by any and every industrialized nation as ‘not acceptable’! They need health insurance.

* When analyzing these health insurance/care figures, an asterisk should be included to indicate an important modification that can change the ultimate interpretation of these results. It is important to consider that these figures not only reflect a year before the present turbulent climate of the end an 8-year administration, culminating in some of the worst economic conditions our nation has seen since 1929. Some of these conditions would be: “economic slow-fade, soaring jobless rates, housing market collapse, unprecedented oil prices, banking system failures and losses of health insurance due to layoffs and trimmed benefits.” Meaning that, this census doesn’t represent today’s conditions. It represents conditions of the ‘financially fatter world’ of 2007, before things got so extreme.

To sum it all up, PhD, Karen Davis is the president of The Commonwealth Fund and a very prolific health insurance/care-economics spokesperson. In a comment to WebMD, she issued this statement: “we need a comprehensive solution to deal with our fragmented health care delivery system and some guarantee that everyone can get coverage that is it supportable.”