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__________________The states that have been most skeptical of President Barack Obama's agenda for health care reform also have some of the highest levels of uninsured people in the nation. A new study by Gallup shows that large swaths of populations in the South and West -- anywhere from one-in-five to one-in-four individuals -- are currently lacking health insurance coverage. These same regions also have the largest percentage of populations who believe widely perpetuated mistruths about the Obama agenda, including allegations that the president will set up "death panels" and wants a complete government takeover of the health care system. According to Gallup, of the 25 states with the greatest percentage of the uninsured, all but three are based in the South or the Midwest. LIST OF STATES WITH MOST UNINSURED Texas - 27 percent of the population is uninsured New Mexico --- 25.6 percent Mississippi - 24 percent Louisiana - 22.4 percent Nevada - 22.2 percent Oklahoma - 22.2 percent (considered a Midwest state) California - 21 percent Wyoming - 20.7 percent Florida - 20.7 percent Georgia - 20.7 percent South Carolina - 20.4 percent Montana - 20.3 percent Alaska -- 20.2 percent Arkansas - 20.1 percent Colorado - 20 percent Oregon - 19.4 percent West Virginia - 19.3 percent (considered a Northeast state) North Carolina - 19.3 percent Idaho - 18.8 percent Utah - 18.1 percent Kentucky - 17.9 percent Tennessee - 17.8 percent Nebraska - 17.7 percent Alabama - 17.2 percent Missouri - 17.1 percent (considered a Midwest state) STATES IN SOUTH AND WEST ARE AS FOLLOWS South: FL, NC, SC, AL, MS, GA, VA, TN, KY, LA, AR, TX West: NM, CA, OR, WA, AK, HI, MT, ID, UT, NV, AZ, WY, CO Compare these findings to those pulled from a recent Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll, which showed that more people in the South and Midwest are prone to believe myths about Obama's health care plan than in other regions of the country. In the South, 26 percent of the public said they believed the health care reform plan being considered by President Obama and Congress requires elderly patients to meet with government officials to discuss "end of life" options, including euthanasia. Twenty percent of Westerners said the same thing. In the Northeast and Midwest those numbers were 11 percent and 17 percent respectively. Meanwhile, 45 percent of Southerners said they thought Obama's health care reform included a government takeover of the entire health care system. Twenty-three percent of Westerners agreed. In the Northeast and Midwest those numbers were 10 percent and 20 percent respectively. That populations most in need of comprehensive insurance reform are most likely to buy into false criticisms of the president's plan is a fascinating window into the current state of the health care debate. Theoretically, the president should be receiving more support in his efforts to expand coverage from those who currently lack it. The opposite, however, seems to hold true. Uninsured: Highest Percentage in Texas, Lowest in Mass. |
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I thought Obama should have reached out to religious groups a looooooonnng time ago. This IS a moral issue.
But most churches are spineless on these types of issues, they're great at the local level but are too afraid to piss off their gun toting "Obama's a Muslim nazi" members of their congregation to do anything at a national level. |
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It's pretty sad they weren't at the forefront of either one of these issues, at least they stepped up to one. I think when the overall church in America(if they ever do) start to step up to real moral issues rather than pseudo-morals, they'll start to lose their reputation of hypocrisy. |
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Excellent article here by a NH primary care doc:
Commentary: Why the doctor won't see you now - CNN.com Quote:
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Well it's mainly the insurance companies fault that primary care physicians do not get reimbursed and compensated as much as specialty doctors. It's poor priorities that have lead to primary care doctors leaving for more lucrative gigs.
We need to start reimubursing and giving priority to preventative and primary care, period. Doctors have been arguing with insurance companies about this for decades. |
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That couldn't possibly be a major factor in MS, LA, SC, WV, KY and MT. Even if for the sake of it you started from the ridiculous assumption that their entire Hispanic populations were uninsured, and subtracted that from their total uninsured, they would all still have uninsured rates above the national average (16.2%). And AR, TN and AL are close to being in that same category. In other words, half the South.
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One of the medications I take has spiked in cost from $20 on my old insurance to $60 on my new insurance. I'm dreading seeing the cost of my insulin, test strips, etc. Absolutely ridiculous.
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![]() also, it is worth pointing out massachusetts' uninsured level is so low because it's mandatory to have insurance there. yet, iirc, there is no promise that if you can't afford third party insurance/don't work for a company that provides it that the state will. i actually know someone essentially breaking the law because they cannot afford it. however, i know that's the exception, not the norm. just saying.
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i'm watching this debate on another forum at the same time. i simply cannot resist posting one person's view.
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lol wow, he sure has it in for potheads doesn't he? what's hilarious is any potheads i know are the ones actually out there working 9-5 jobs. stereotyping
![]() there are just so many generalizations in that post, it makes me weep. especially in this economy, it's way too easy to just dismiss people with "no money" as people who are lazy. there are many, many people out there with no money/job not because they're lazy, but because they apply to 500 places and don't even get a call for an interview. the job market is tough these days. ridiculously tough. call me insensitive, but i don't really give a rat's ass that rich people are "loosing money". i'm sorry, but i've been unemployed for six months now. i wish all i had to worry about was cutting back on my investments or whatever.
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