Friday, June 19, 2009

46 Mil is such a bogus #

Just like Mitch Snyder's Homeless numbers back in the 80's
Over at Newsbusters, they say, Journalists have used the statistic of 46 million-47 million uninsured Americans, but as Seymour told Fox Business, this number was wildy inflated. “The Census Bureau comes up with this number and they said that the number of uninsured is really 45.6 million people. But that's total people, and that includes almost 10 million who are non-citizens,” Seymour clarified.
Seymour also broke the statistic further down, explaining that almost 9 million were young people who didn’t need of health insurance, and 9 million were those who make more than $75,000 and chose not to buy insurance.
Seymour spelled out to host Stuart Varney that contrary to what the media have told their viewers, the number of “chronically uninsured,” according to the liberal Kaiser Family Foundation, was only somewhere between 8 million and 13 million people.

In a different article
by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association finds more than 14 million of the 41 million uninsured are eligible for Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP), but have not enrolled.
According to the Blue Cross study, 5.7 million are short-term insured, such as recent college graduates or people between jobs. The report also indicates 5.2 million uninsured are in three states with a high number of illegal immigrants: California, Texas, and New York.
See Video below. Audio quality is low, so you might have to turn up speakers.

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