Putting the Uninsured Numbers in Perspective
DavidHunnicutt.com just wrote an article putting the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation study on the uninsured in the U.S. in perspective. 46,100,000 out of 300,000,000 people in this country are without health insurance. Leaving 15% of the population, or 1 in 6, uninsured. If you factor out the number of Americans over age 65, the number jumps to 19%, or 1 in 5 without health insurance. Here is a better perspective on the size of that number:
The 46,100,000 U.S. citizens presently living without health insurance is roughly equivalent to the entire population residing in America’s 51 most populated cities.
Wow! I did some math on the number of people without health insurance in Colorado as-well. The number of uninsured in Colorado at any given time is around 700,000. The population of Denver (557,917) + the population of Fort Collins (128,026) = 685,943. 17% of the overall population are without health insurance in Colorado.
Jan 6th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
[...] Shortly after Bill Ritter was elected governor, he began his plan to fix a big problem in Colorado: 700,000 people without health insurance. He hasn’t given any specific plans on how he is going to go about it yet, but he said he will start looking at a lot of ideas that have been tried and start accepting ideas. Personally, I think he should start working with Senator Ron Wyden (D OR) about his plan. [...]
Apr 27th, 2007 at 10:42 am
[...] In his State of the Union Address, the President will announce a new effort – led by Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt – to help governors reduce the number of people in their states without private health insurance. At any given time, Colorado has about 700,000 people without health insurance. [...]