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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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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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McCain Health Care Tax Places New Burden on Americans

Submitted by Alexander Sewell
September 30th, 2008

The tax credit McCain claims will offset this new burden would rise only at the rate of inflation—not the rate of health care costs, which grow much more quickly—so that by 2018 a family earning $40,000 a year will be paying $2,800 in higher taxes, even with McCain’s tax credit.

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[Center for American Progress Action Fund]
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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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Employers Drop Nearly 2 Million Workers from Health Insurance

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
September 15th, 2008

Since 2000, the number of workers who can depend on employer-sponsored health insurance has fallen by nearly 2 million.

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U.S. Census Bureau
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Medicare Part D Can't Negotiate Prices

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
August 11th, 2008

Medicare Part D's drug prices are the only federal program that doesn’t negotiate a fair price --its prices are handled by more than 2,000 private insurance plans. Yet, Medicaid, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, the Public Health Service, the Bureau of Prisons, and other federal agencies all buy drugs at negotiated prices.

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Kaiser Family Foundation
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Price Negotiations Can Save Medicare Billions

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
August 11th, 2008

If Medicare were allowed to negotiate drug prices with manufacturers, the program would save approximately $90 billion a year, which could be passed along to the elderly in the form of lower costs or greater benefits.

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Center for Economic and Policy Research