What a joke!
You can’t even steal right, can you? If you’re going to plagiarize, at least do it correctly.
The HONEST way to post this stuff would’ve looked something like this:
“The Impact of Rising Health Care Costs”
Economists have found that rising health care costs correlate with significant drops in health insurance coverage, and national surveys also show that the primary reason people are uninsured is due to the high and escalating cost of health insurance coverage.8
A recent study found that 62 percent of all bankruptcies filed in 2007 were linked to medical expenses. Of those who filed for bankruptcy, nearly 80 percent had health insurance.9
According to another published article, about 1.5 million families lose their homes to foreclosure every year due to unaffordable medical costs.10
Without health care reform, small businesses will pay nearly $2.4 trillion dollars over the next ten years in health care costs for their workers, 178,000 small business jobs will be lost by 2018 as a result of health care costs, $834 billion in small business wages will be lost due to high health care costs over the next ten years, small businesses will lose $52.1 billion in profits to high health care costs and 1.6 million small business workers will suffer “job lock“— roughly one in 16 people currently insured by their employers.11
References
8.The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. The Uninsured: A Primer, Key Facts About Americans without Health Insurance. 2009. April 2009.
9. Himmelstein, D, E., et al, “Medical Bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: Results of a National Study, American Journal of Medicine, May 2009.
10. Robertson, C.T., et al. “Get Sick, Get Out: The Medical Causes of Home Mortgage Foreclosures,” Health Matrix, 2008.
11. The Economic Impact of Healthcare Reform on Small Business, Small Business Majority, June 2009.
Of course, you would’ve credited the people you stole all this work from:
National Coalition on Health Care, www.nchc.com.
I can’t believe you’d publish someone else’s work as your own, then when called on it, post a link to someone else who’d used it, but DID credit it properly.
Oh, wait a minute, yes I can believe it because of your proven past performance.
(Are we to presume that everything else you’ve posted was stolen as well?)
You haven’t read Himmelstein’s study, or you’d know how badly off the mark it is from the truth.
Robertson’s “Get Out” is more OPINION presented as research. Of course, you didn’t bother reading it either, did you?
No, just copy and paste without accreditation
How sad.
But, just for starters, let’s look at Himmelstein. The study is fatally flawed.
Dr. Himmelstein is a co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, "the only national physician organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to implementing a single-payer national health program," according to its website. The author is a self-declared activist for single-payer health care, and has twisted the data to fit his cause.
Aparna Mathur, another witness at the Congressional hearing where Himmelstein presented his conclusion, stated that, "the Himmelstein surveys overstate the effect of medical debts on bankruptcy. Despite obvious problems with the survey methodology, it was clear to me during the testimony yesterday that the study was being used as a pretext for making the case for universal health insurance."
Himmelstein's study contradicts the economics literature on personal bankruptcies. Most reputable studies are based on the Survey of Consumer Finances, published by the Federal Reserve, which lists different types of consumer debt. Medical debt rose slightly from 5.5% of all debt in 2001 to 5.8% of all debt in 2007, according to the Fed.
A study by the Department of Justice examined more than 5,000 bankruptcy cases between 2000 and 2002. It found that 54% of bankruptcies involve no medical debt, and more than 90% have medical debt of less than $5,000. Even among the minority of bankruptcies that report medical debt, only a few have enough to cause personal bankruptcy.
Dr. Himmelstein gets different results because he uses a smaller sample and a different methodology than other studies. He started with a random sample of 5,251 bankruptcy petitions and wound up through a series of screenings only using 1,032. His survey assumes that when a medical problem is mentioned that associated medical costs are automatically associated with bankruptcy. In addition, anyone is counted as medically bankrupt if they cite a workers’ death, illness or medical bills as a reason for bankruptcy, even if other debts, such as foreclosure and credit card debt, are a primary reason.
Furthermore, if respondents lost two weeks of work due to illness or injury they were counted as medically bankrupt, even if they had no medical debt. Hypothetically, someone could go into bankruptcy while on Medicare or Medicaid, even if they owed no medical bills at all.
And that’s just for starters. I’ve already been through EXACTLY this with you in another thread you ran away from.
I’m going to do you a favor. I’m going to give you a chance to READ the articles you stole and quoted from, before I show you how wrong you are.
I can understand someone being an advocate for “single payer.” Some people believe that government should take care of everything for them and that they should have no personal responsibility at all.
I cannot understand anyone who would steal others’ work, present it as fact, and NOT EVEN READ IT!
Deny ignorance!
jw
[edit on 8-10-2009 by jdub297]
