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Aug 29th, 2006 at 8:00 am by Susie
The number of Americans without health insurance probably rose to a record in 2005 as medical costs increased three times as fast as wages, according to forecasts for a Census Bureau report today.
The total has climbed every year since President George W. Bush took office, a point Democrats are likely to seize on in this year’s congressional election. In February Bush called the 45.8 million who didn’t have insurance in 2004 “unacceptable in our country.” Emory University Professor Ken Thorpe in Atlanta says Bush has done little to help these people.
“We’ve had absolutely no federal effort or interest in insuring the uninsured since 2000,” said Thorpe, who was deputy assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Health and Human Services from 1993 to 1995. “This has not been a priority of the Bush administration.”
join the army, get shot and then we might take care of you! great policy!