Most uninsured Texans work full-time

[Judi Lynn]

Most uninsured Texans work full-time

05:13 PM CDT on Wednesday, September 8, 2004
Associated Press

DALLAS – Three-fourths of uninsured Texans have full-time jobs but cannot afford health insurance, according to a report released Wednesday by the Texas Association of Business. The study also shows that more than half of Texans without health coverage live in households earning more than $75,000 a year.

The statistics show the need for changes to the state's insurance laws to combat the soaring costs, said Bill Hammond, president and CEO of the Texas Association of Business, which represents more than 140,000 small and large companies and 200 chambers of commerce.

"Businesses are struggling to provide their employees with health insurance," Hammond said Wednesday at the group's conference on health-care issues.

Texas has the highest rate of uninsured non-elderly residents, about one-fourth of the state's population, according to U.S. census data. Some 4.8 million Texans had no insurance in 2003, an increase of 300,000 from 2002, according to the National Academy of Sciences.
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[skooooo]

1. why do these fools vote republican??

[The Zanti Regent]

3. The same reason my idiot sister does

All she watches is Jesus TV and she says Jesus gonna rapture her in a week or 2. Problem is she's said the same bullshit for the past 25 years...

[mbperrin]

4. I couldn't tell you.

I've lived in Texas all my life. I have so-called insurance because I teach, but the plan costs $324 a month for just me, and last year paid $5 in benefits while my co-pay and exclusions were a bit over $1500, so even though I "have" insurance, I don't. (I'd rather have the money, but you can't opt yourself out.)

As a teacher, it's doubly frustrating to see people get the sh*t knocked out of them by someone and then having those same people get thanked for going to the trouble of administering the beating.

[Jon8503]

2. I ask the same question constantly why in the world so many of

these people would vote for Bush. The book "Whats Wrong With Kansas" investigates this as the author shows that the republicans or Bush does absolutely nothing for them or these voters.

It appears that a lot of the votes are based on the idea that "Bush is such a Christian man" or it could be guns but has nothing to do with improving the quality of life.

I guess as long as you let me be a Christian and have a gun, I am happy.

I don't know anymore??????????????

[sam sarrha]

5. El Paso TX has a Mean income of $14,000 anually..and the half on the down

make much less. After working for Boeing space and communications for 3 years as a Rework specialist on the F22 program.. i made only $15,000.

there was a "nest" of democrats in El Paso that was neutralized in the second gerrymander in 2 years by the republicans.

This was accomplished by running a 1 foot wide path from an Austin precinct 600 miles away down between the freeway lanes across Texas into El Paso that 'swallowed' up the Democrats votes.

this was another attack by the Republican DEEP THROAT party

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