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More Uninsured Children

Submitted by Terrance Heath
August 28th, 2007

In 2006, 11.7% of children, or 8.7 million kids, went without health insurance. That's up from the previous year, when 10.9%, or 8 million children, were uninsured.

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U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division August 28, 2007
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Americans Lack Health Insurance

Submitted by Alex Carter
March 11th, 2008

47 million Americans lacked health insurance in 2006, up from 38 million in 2000.

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Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, and Jessica Smith. “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2006,” United States Census Bureau. August 2007. Available from: http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/p60-233.pdf
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Rising Health Care Costs are to Blame for Rising Medicare Cost

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
October 13th, 2008

The Congressional Budget Office reports the main factor in the rising cost of Medicare is the growth of health care costs—health expenditures as a percent of GDP have more than doubled since 1970, growing from 7.0 percent to 14.8 percent in 2002.

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CBO, CBO
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Bush's Medicare Drug Plan Leaves Millions Paying Higher

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
October 13th, 2008

President Bush’s push for further privatization of Medicare's prescription drug plan stuck 3.4 million Medicare beneficiaries with high drug costs.

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Kaiser Family Foundation
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Prohibition to Drug-Price Negotiate Costs Government Billions

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
October 13th, 2008

Bush's Medicare prescription drug plan prohibits the federal government's ability to negotiate drug prices--costing the government an estimated $90 billion annually.

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Center for Economic and Policy Research
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Bush Administration's Medicare Advantage Plan Costs Double

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
October 13th, 2008

The Bush Administration’s privatized “Medicare Advantage” plans are rising twice as fast as costs in traditional Medicare, according to the Government Accountability Office, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

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Congressional Quarterly
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The Devil's in the Details: McCain Health Care Plan May Cause Americans to Lose Health Care

Submitted by Alexander Sewell
September 30th, 2008

The health care tax exemption does more than lower families’ tax burden; it also provides an incentive for businesses to offer health care benefits to their employees. Without the exemption, an estimated 11 million to 27 million people nationwide will lose their employer-sponsored health insurance. In the hardest-hit states— New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Connecticut—as many as 1 in every 6 currently-insured workers would lose their health care coverage.

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[EPI Policy Center]
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McCain Health Care Plan Doesn't Work For The Sick

Submitted by Alexander Sewell
September 30th, 2008

McCain’s plan will sink anyone with a pre-existing condition. Plenty of families won’t be able to obtain health coverage at any price, since the McCain plan offers no protection for those with pre-existing conditions. That will allow insurers to refuse to cover an estimated 56 million people who have preexisting conditions such as cancer or diabetes

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[Center for American Progress Action Fund]
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Medical Bills, Lack of Healthcare, Responsible for Many Home Foreclosures

Submitted by Alexander Sewell
September 30th, 2008

Two studies found that about half of families facing foreclosure reported that their financial difficulties were caused by health care issues such as unmanageable medical bills or missing work due to a medical problem.

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[Washington Post]
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McCain Plan Adds Tax to Employer-Sponsored Health Care Benefits

Submitted by Alexander Sewell
September 30th, 2008

McCain’s health plan will hit families with a huge new tax. Currently, employer-provided health care benefits are tax exempt, a longstanding policy that has saved families thousands of dollars and helped keep health care costs from spiraling out of control. McCain has promised to eliminate this tax break, a move that could add over $1,100 to the average family’s tax bill by 2013.

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Center for American Progress Action Fund
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