[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19563]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    JUST WHO ARE THE ``UNINSURED''?

  (Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Speaker, as the House majority presses hard to 
force-feed to Congress a government takeover of health care in the next 
few days, it would be very instructive to answer the question: Just who 
are the ``uninsured''?
  The most recent Census Bureau report of 2007 said that there were 
roughly 46 million people in this country labeled as ``uninsured'': 9.5 
million were noncitizens; 18 million were between the ages of 18 and 
30; 12 million people had household incomes less than $25,000, which 
means they already qualify for existing public health care programs; 
7.3 million had annual incomes higher than $84,000, putting health 
coverage within their own financial reach; and 9.1 million were 
uninsured for less than 1 year--and half of these people regained their 
health coverage within 4 months.
  This leaves 7.8 million lower income Americans who can be 
characterized as the long-term uninsured. Yet the majority is promising 
trillion dollar legislation that ``significantly expands the Federal 
responsibility for health care costs.''
  And how do they pay for it? Taxes, more taxes, more taxes.

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