By Jim Stanford on November 1, 2009
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Twenty-two percent of Wyoming women between the ages of 21 and 64 have no health insurance.
Wyoming Blue Cross Blue Shield does not cover child birth, though it charges higher premiums to women of child-bearing age.
Even a relatively healthy single male pays $120 a month just to have a $20,000 deductible.
Anyone who believes the health insurance system is working in Wyoming has been smoking the blackberry kush at a Phish festival.
And Wyoming’s congressional delegation doesn’t get it.
That’s why activists of all political stripes have organized a rally for noon Tuesday on the Town Square. The event should serve as a wake-up call to leaders like U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, who before throwing his hands up in a fit of political obstructionism had been one of the key Republicans working on a legislative compromise.
If there was any doubt on whether Enzi would negotiate in good faith, it was erased in this hearing last summer, when the Republican had to be advised by an aide on why he was blocking his own party’s amendments. Delay, distort, obfuscate and fail: The GOP playbook aims to sink health reform to bring down the Obama administration.
Sickening.
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From the US Census:
WY Males 21 to 64 years
Health Insurance Coverage in 2006 to 2008
Totals 156,000
Insured 126,000
Uninsured 30,000
19.2% Uninsured Males age 21 to 64 in Wyoming
WY Females 21 to 64 years
Health Insurance Coverage in 2006 to 2008
Totals 149,000
Insured 123,000
Uninsured 25,000
16.7% Uninsured Females age 21 to 64 in Wyoming
If you’re bored, there’s even more fun with US Census charts at: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstc/cps_table_creator.html
The figure I cited (21.9 percent actually) came from a Wyoming Women’s Foundation Wage Project brochure. Perhaps they were using older data. Thanks for clarifying that between a sixth and a fifth of Wyoming’s workforce lacks health insurance.
The bigger problem lies in fact that most of those insured are either going broke paying for it on there own, or go broke when they use it and find out its no all its cracked up to be. I don’t believe in anything for free but I also don’t believe in scams and monopolies, so the health care problem as a whole is very wide ranging and needs a huge overhaul top to bottom. It doesn’t matter if its 16% or 22% if your one of the ones without it. I ended up in the hospital right after I graduated from college and the bill was pretty steep but since I didn’t have a job yet and didn’t have insurance I was able to leave that bill to the tax payers if I chose to (even though my father and my own dignity informed me I wouldn’t be doing that) I volunteered to pay it back over time but had NO obligation to do so. I could have walked away paying ZERO NOTHING. Then I got a job and got insurance ended up back in the hospital for a broken bone once again only this time I had to pay a butt load because I am responsible have a job and insurance. So explain to me why this is ok? So to people who say NO NO then the illegal’s will get free health care and and all this stuff get real and turn off the Glen Beck & Rush. I hate to break it to you but they already do and so do the people who are on hard time or are irresponsible. And you the taxpayer with a job being responsible are paying for it as we speak, Its a broken system top to bottom.