Families USA reports that during 2007-2008, 1.3 million Louisiana residents, 36.2 percent of residents under age 65, were uninsured at some point. The health consumer organization estimates that of those, 75.3 perecent went without insurance for six months or more. Other findings include:
● Nearly three-quarters of Louisiana’s uninsured, or 73.1 percent, were in working families, working full- or part-time.
● More than half, or 54.3 percent, of those individuals and families in Louisiana with incomes below twice the poverty level — $42,400 of annual income for a family of four in 2008 — went without health insurance at some point in 2007-2008.
● In addition, one in four, or 25.6 percent, of those individuals and families in Louisiana with incomes at or above twice the poverty level — $42,400 of annual income for a family of four in 2008 — went without health insurance at some point in 2007-2008.
● While whites accounted for the largest number of uninsured in Louisiana, African Americans were much more likely to be uninsured than whites: 46.3 percent of African Americans went without health insurance in 2007-2008, compared to 29.2 percent of whites.
... written by Hugo Chavez , April 08, 2009 - 04:48 pm
Maybe their uninsured because they choose not to be insured...When i was young having health insurance was the last thing on my mind ...
... written by Phil , April 08, 2009 - 07:12 pm
My medical bills in the last 8 years amount to less than the cost of two months of insurance. So I'm supposed to be scared something will happen. Health insurance is a scam.
... written by Reine , April 09, 2009 - 11:38 am
The article fails to mention the LSU Healthcare Services.http://www.lsuhospitals.org/default.htm
Quoting from their web information: Louisiana State University operates eight hospitals, which are managed by the Health Care Services Division. Combined, the LSU facilities admit 50,000 patients annually, and they provide nearly 1.2 million outpatient visits, around 70 percent of which are clinic visits. Mission-driven to care for the uninsured and provide training opportunities for future health professionals, LSU HCSD is a statewide safety net system in which everyone is eligible for care.
LSU hospitals, in providing the majority of care to the uninsured patients in the state, support other community facilities by protecting them from a greater share of uncompensated care.
... written by Reine , April 09, 2009 - 01:16 pm
This article CLEARLY wants to portray people as having no health care, but that is simply not the case in Louisiana. With the LSU Healthcare system, care is available and it is used as can be seen by the information from their website that I posted above: 1.2 million outpatient visits annually; 50,000 patient admits a year.
... written by monsewage , April 09, 2009 - 04:52 pm
Lies and propaganda from socialist shills... http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/04/msm-complicit-in-full-court-pr-push-for.html
... written by Kevin1 , April 10, 2009 - 02:47 pm
Hey, we're trying to determine who made the call to print an article about lack of insurance across 200 newspapers on the exact same day. R. Reese Fuller, would you be kind enough to send me an email as to who gave you the order to write this article? Thanks! (blogagog...yahoo.com)
... written by R. Reese Fuller , April 10, 2009 - 07:52 pm
Whoa! Talk about shills and shrill. There's nothing like a good old-fashioned Leftist-Socialist conspiracy theory to top off your Good Friday.
Kevin1, no one gave me an order to write anything. I select what I want to write for these daily blog entries. Sometimes they're simply statements and press releases made by organizations which may be of interest to our readers. You can read all of my blog entries here: http://www.theind.com/content/blogcategory/40/92/ You'll see that many of them don't have to do with health insurance. But to answer your question, I made the call.
From time to time, organizations issue press releases, and media outlets publish them. Here's a group called Focus on the Family and some of the press releases it issues for public consumption: http://www2.focusonthefamily.com/press/pressreleases/
Here's also another piece that ran throughout the nation about each state's "Happiness Index" for which I wrote a blog entry. Perhaps you will find it objectionable as well: http://www.theind.com/content/view/4173/92/
Oh, here's another one from the Pew Center on the States that reports that 1 in every 31 adults in American is either behind bars or in the correctional system. (In Louisiana, that number is 1 in 26). http://www.theind.com/content/view/3960/92/
Are these offensive as well? Or is it just the issue of Americans without health insurance that's so distasteful?
But I could be missing your point here and it's just the dissemination of information that you find so repugnant. If that's the case, you might want to steer clear from the Associated Press (http://www.ap.org/); their news items appear in newspapers throughout the world. Then there's also this thing called the Internet (you're using it right now!) which serves as a means for distributing information to people.
Have a joyous Easter. The Lord is risen. Indeed. Hallelujah!
... written by RightOnTarget , April 11, 2009 - 08:42 am
Isn't it funny how all these articles that get so much coordinated ink all lean the same socialist direction? It MUST be a coincidence.
... written by johnmayer , April 16, 2009 - 08:28 am
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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