Study: 26% of Americans Had Health Insurance Gap Last Year

So much for Obamacare:

As common Americans wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of health care reform laws, a new study was released that shows that a large minority of Americans had a gap in their coverage in 2011. According to the Commonwealth Fund Health Insurance Tracking Survey of U.S. Adults, the equivalent of 48 million Americans were uninsured at some point during 2011.

The primary driving factors in the gap in health insurance was causes by losses or changes in jobs of either the individual or the spouse. The survey includes 2,100 adults in the United States from the ages of 19 to 64.

Of the people who reported a health insurance gap, 69% said that they did not have insurance for more than a year, while 57% reported that they didn't have health insurance for more than two years. The survey found that almost 50% of those who tried to get insurance over the last three years did not purchase a plan on the individual insurance market. Nearly two-thirds of them reported that the premiums were too expensive, while one-third reported that they were turned down for insurance, had prices raised or were excluded for a pre-existing condition.

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GOP Hypocrisy on Health Care

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Republicans opposed health care reform but benefit from their government subsidized benefits.

House Fails to Override Health Bill Veto

This demonstrates once and for all Bush's lack of concern for the people of America:

For the second time in three months, the House failed Wednesday to override President Bush's veto of a bill that would greatly increase spending on a popular children's health insurance program.

Democratic leaders fell 15 votes shy of obtaining the two-thirds majority needed for an override. The final vote was 260-152, with 42 Republicans siding with Democrats.

The result was expected, even as override supporters pointed to the slowing economy as another reason to spend another $35 billion on the State Children's Health Insurance Program over the next five years.

[...]The legislation that Bush vetoed would have increased enrollment in the children's health program from 6 million to 10 million over the coming five years. The revenue needed for that enrollment increase would come from a 61-cent increase in the federal excise tax on a pack of cigarettes, as well as comparable tax increases on other tobacco products.

[...]The president's second veto occurred in December. He said the bill encouraged too many families to replace private insurance with government-subsidized health coverage. He vetoed a similar bill in October. Democratic leaders then fell 13 votes short in their attempt to override that particular veto, so they actually lost ground Wednesday.

The children's health program serves families that earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to afford private insurance.