Comments on: UNINSURED CRISIS CAUSES CHILD ABUSE! http://www.healthcarebs.com/2008/04/04/uninsured-crisis-causes-child-abuse/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:17:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Marc Brown http://www.healthcarebs.com/2008/04/04/uninsured-crisis-causes-child-abuse/#comment-81986 Marc Brown Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:29:28 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2008/04/04/uninsured-crisis-causes-child-abuse/#comment-81986 You're stretching yourself to breaking point here - must be a slow day in Catron country. The researcher clearly said insurance 'might in part' be a factor, and that's it. Given what we know about people in the US who go without healthcare because they can't afford it, he is surely right to raise it - as of course what we also know is that 'the percentage and the number of children under 18 years old without health insurance increased to 11.7 percent and 8.7 million in 2006 (from 10.9 percent and 8.0 million, respectively, in 2005). With an uninsured rate in 2006 at 19.3 percent, children in poverty were more likely to be uninsured than all children'. http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/hlthin06/hlth06asc.html You’re stretching yourself to breaking point here - must be a slow day in Catron country. The researcher clearly said insurance ‘might in part’ be a factor, and that’s it. Given what we know about people in the US who go without healthcare because they can’t afford it, he is surely right to raise it - as of course what we also know is that ‘the percentage and the number of children under 18 years old without health insurance increased to 11.7 percent and 8.7 million in 2006 (from 10.9 percent and 8.0 million, respectively, in 2005). With an uninsured rate in 2006 at 19.3 percent, children in poverty were more likely to be uninsured than all children’.

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