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The Citizenship of the Uninsured
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Aug 26, 2009 03:35am |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Author | Nancy Folbre |
| News Date | Monday, August 10, 2009 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Many conservatives argue that the Democrats are exaggerating the number of Americans suffering from lack of health insurance. As I observed in my last post, Karl Rove claims in a recent op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal that only about 2 percent of Americans really need help getting coverage.
In my opinion, Mr. Rove makes one good point in his op-ed piece. Unfortunately this point generates some unpleasant insights into the role of citizenship in the current policy debate.
Here’s the one good point: Some policy makers (including our president) have recently referred to “46 million Americans” who lack health insurance coverage. That’s not exactly right. According to the latest Census report, about 46 million people living in America in 2007 lacked health insurance coverage, but about one-fifth of these people were not United States citizens. |
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