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Obama and the "50 million uninsured"

Valiente Gabriel Calzada article Expanding explaining a few things about the American health care reform ... Among other pearls
explains who these "50 million Americans without health care" I was talking about Michael Moore in Sicko. It turns out that when you look at the numbers ... stay at least 5 million with difficult access to treatment ...

However, this does not mean that "nearly 50 million Americans without access to medical services" as is repeated incessantly. Of those 46 million, 12.6 million residents are immigrants whose case should be treated as distinct (And, indeed, the new law does not consider the granting of public benefits).

Therefore, we speak of 33.4 million, of which 14 million eligible to access the public health system when they want because their income level or other circumstances. Which have not done so indicates that this part should be young people who have not even services required urgent enough to trigger public insurance. We talked then of 19.4 million Americans, 6.1% of the population without health insurance and no entitlement to any of the existing public programs before the new reform.

But more interesting is that this amount the majority and is growing segment of families with incomes above $ 75,000, while the percentage within this group of families with relatively low wages (but above the limit to qualify for public programs) has only be reduced (to 24%) in the last ten years. Seen in this way does not seem so obvious that the solution to this small percentage of the population should be the interference with freedom of medical recruitment and the takeover by the state in a sector that represents 20% of GDP.