Reid’s Health Care Bill by the Numbers

Let’s take a quick look at numbers behind the Senate health care bill introduced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Reid claims his bill will cover 94 percent of the population at a cost of $849 billion over 10 years.

The population of the country is roughly 300 million.

At this point you need to understand one thing – there are two vastly different numbers used for the uninsured. The first number consists of all the people uninsured at some point in a given year, whether they are citizens or here illegally. The second number is the chronically uninsured, those who have spent an extended period of time (years) without insurance. The number for the former, the one I like to call the “kitchen sink” number, is one with which you are undoubtedly familiar: 47-49 million. The number for the latter, the chronically uninsured, is one you may not have heard before: 12-15 million.

How these differing numbers come to be is a story for another day, but let’s analyze both of them for the sake of argument.

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Tags: chronically uninsured, employer provided coverage, government health care, Government spending, Harry Reid
Posted Dec 6th 2009 at 6:51 pm in Healthcare | 3395042 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dhunter/2009/12/06/reids-health-care-bill-by-the-numbers/Reid%27s+Health+Care+Bill+by+the+Numbers2009-12-07+01%3A51%3A01Derek+Hunter