Nearly 30% of Insured Have Government Plans, Up From '08

[daniel green]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/121970/Nearly-Insured-Government-Coverage-2008.aspx

Interesting.

[Mimi428]

Thanks for that link, DG - much appreciated.

I noticed this part, in particular -

Previous Gallup research has shown that the overall percentage of adult Americans without health insurance has edged upward over the last year and a half to 16.0% in June 2009 from 14.8% in January 2008.

There is a link inside your page that goes to how the 16.0% figure was reached.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/121820/One-Six-Adults-Without-Health-Insurance.aspx

About One in Six U.S. Adults Are Without Health Insurance

Lots of interesting info there regarding how this information is collected.

[Mimi428]

Not really....when you engineer expanded entitlements and create the need for those engineered entitlements by engineering continued job losses.....it appears to be working just as intended.

IMO

I think that depends on how you feel about socialized medicine. According to the news reports of late, there are a huge number of citizens who are OPPOSED to healthcare plans run by the government.

If you are opposed to healthcare run by the government, I doubt you would be happy to know how much government-run healthcare exists already. I expect at any moment that the protesters at the townhall meetings will be demanding that their elected representives completely dismantle Medicare (among other programs).

[Brentwood]

My translation when rw'rs say Entitlements. It means, average jane and john does, who need help are not real Americans....they are lazy no-good people looking for a hand-out. Disgusting in my opinion.