Comments on: Mike Rosen’s Meaningless Statistics

By: Colorado Health Insurance Insider » State of the Union

Colorado Health Insurance Insider » State of the Union — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:14:29 +0000

[...] President Bush is heading off plans by many in the new democratically elected congress to change the way our country’s health care system works. Using the widely accepted method of conducting a cencus, 46 million people in this country are uninsured and around 700,000 people in Colorado have no health insurance at any given time. [...]

By: Colorado Health Insurance Insider » Another Response to Mike Rosen

Colorado Health Insurance Insider » Another Response to Mike Rosen — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:27:58 +0000

[...] The Rocky Mountain News printed a response to Mike Rosen’s article “No ‘crisis’ of uninsured”. It’s not really as much a response to the points Mr. Rosen gave as much as the same figures you’ve read in the health policy blogosphere already. It was written by Dr. Gary D. VanderArk, president of the Coalition for the Medically Underserved, who does a below average job of making his case. He had an opportunity to give us more information and help educate those that don’t understand his position, and missed it. Thank goodness that Colorado has an organization like the Coalition for the Medically Underserved. This organization is committed to getting out the true data on the uninsured and is committed to doing something about it. We do not advocate for what Rosen calls socialized medicine, but we do advocate health care for all. We can do this without just turning everything over to the government. Let’s all get together and create a new system that works for everyone. [...]

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:02:53 +0000

Why would Mike Rosen think about other people? Everything is just peachy in his neighborhood.

By: Ron G.

Ron G. — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:30:01 +0000

Usually when there is a census taken, like the current population or the number of people with incomes below poverty level, it’s assumed that it is a snapshot. Just think if they had to calculate the population of the United States in 2006 based only on the number of people who were alive or residents throughout the course of the entire year!