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If you are going uninsured, or went with the cheapest policy, that's fine. It's their own decision, but they need to know the risks.

Patricia Borowski

With this final support, we will be able to remain open and fulfill our mission and responsibility of caring for our city's uninsured and vulnerable populations.

Dr. Reginald Coopwood

Sarbanes-Oxley requires that public companies report these exposures on their 10Qs, so the reserves shortfall is right out there in the open. Helping reduce the possibility of a shareholders' lawsuit over leaving your largest risk uninsured could be called a bonus that comes with the policy, no extra charge.

Scott Pales

If something is not covered by insurance, or if you're uninsured or underinsured, it's reasonable to find out if you can get a fee that works for you so you can get the care you need.

Dr. Edward Langston

Texas needs to be more experimental in its efforts to improve coverage for the uninsured.

Michael Mckinney

An uninsured loss such as the theft of a laptop or a liability claim stemming from a party mishap can deal a devastating blow to a college students' limited bank account or the livelihood of a parent already struggling with high tuition bills.

Madelyn Flannagan

If you were uninsured or your insurance policy did not cover some of your disaster-related damages or losses, FEMA may be able to help. If your insurance company did not fully cover your losses, take the first step and register with FEMA.

Tom Davies

We are all in this problem together. One way to think about it is: How much are you and I paying to cover the uninsured?

Karen Minyard

The San Antonio area has a significant uninsured rate of 20 percent. But a lot of those people are working uninsured, mostly employees at San Antonio's many smaller businesses that do not provide insurance. Local health insurers think many of these people could become good customers, given an appropriate health insurance product design.

Patrick Powers

We'll be looking at issues including Mandate Light, which gives consumers the opportunity to chose what type of (medical) benefits they want and also at possibly doing a health insurance voucher for the uninsured, including businesses that do not currently offer health insurance, as well as individuals who do not have health insurance.

Michelle Bolton

We are experiencing the same kinds of problems that are no different from those faced by most other hospitals in the country. Hospitals are losing money because we are receiving lower state and federal reimbursements for patient treatments and are having more uninsured and under-insured patients using emergency rooms as their primary care physicians.

Kevin M. Spiegel

For the vast majority of Oregonians, especially those who are uninsured or underinsured, it's important to look at choosing a plan, ... Our concern is that there is so much fog in the air and on the ground that people will decide not to think about it.

Jerry Cohen

In terms of property damage, ... the estimate is at least $26 billion in insured losses and perhaps twice that in uninsured losses over a 90,000-square-mile area - approximately the size of Kansas.

Hilary Swank

We're redirecting resources to serve uninsured individuals without many treatment options. While most existing clients will phase out of treatment before the consolidation is complete, we will ensure those who need continued care find alternative, local treatment, and we will continue to offer referral service should future need arise.

Anna Farneski

Today's ruling is a victory for California consumers over insurers' brazen effort to undo Proposition 103 in Sacramento, which would have led to more uninsured drivers and made it harder for people who need insurance to get it.

Harvey Rosenfield

How many of them are uninsured and low income -- that's what were determining right now. That's something that as you make the program available...we will get a better sense of how many of those 200,000 qualify.

Gerardo Cardenas

For children, uninsured rates appear to be declining over time.

Charles Nelson

Yet, our longevity is no higher than Canadians' and we have 45 million-plus (people) uninsured.

Ravi Sahay

Right now we have a seven-month wait for uninsured men. I guess that will go to a year.

Mac Mcarthur

My concern is a single concern - can we keep a safety net under patients so they don't end up in a health crisis just because they cannot get medicine or care? I don't think the system is meeting the needs of the uninsured right now. It's overwhelmed.

Carol Currier

What we found was that many of the mothers that experience those poor outcomes are unhealthy and uninsured before they ever get pregnant.

Carol Brady

The government is crushing all of the vehicles, so-they-say, but any vehicle looked at prior to Dec. 6 [2005] was sent to auction. The vehicles that the owners were allowed to retain are all over the country, and all of the uninsured vehicles are for sale everywhere.

Todd Hoffman

The percentage of uninsured working adults is climbing consistently because of the cost of insurance premiums, health care and medications. We depend on private contributions from the community to continue offering these services.

Kathy Baxley

How many will stay, how many will repatriate to New Orleans has yet to be determined, ... But we know we have a responsibility to care for the underinsured, the uninsured.

Donald R. Smithburg

In the absence of doing broader system reform and more universal coverage, this policy at least addresses the most tenuous time in terms of health care?entrance into the labor market, Rite of Passage? Why Young Adults Become Uninsured and How New Policies Can Help.

Sara Collins

The distinction between uninsured and insured isn't as simple as it used to be. When we look at people who are insured, we need to know not only if they have insurance, but do they have adequate insurance. So, the numbers could be misleadingly low.

Carol Pryor

That's the thing about the uninsured — it affects all of us. For the insured, it affects rates in the insurance market.

Julia Robinson

There are a lot of students that are going to college uninsured. And for those that are insured, there is not a lot of knowledge about what scenarios can effect that coverage.

Richard Flaherty

No one wants to deal with costs. No one wants to deal with the uninsured. So each layer of government keeps pushing down the problems.

Adam Searing

Creating insurance for the uninsured is made harder by the high-risk folks. (The pool) will make it much easier to provide insurance to those who are currently uninsured.

Bill Todd

We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.

Herb Kohl

Buried (in the method by which hospitals set fees) is this array of cross-subsidies that lets our health-care system train young doctors, conduct research and care for the uninsured.

Bill Vaughan

When we consider that it is small business that drives the economy — to have that engine resting on the backs of millions of uninsured workers is a bad proposition for the U.S. economy. This has to be seen as a wake-up call to policymakers and healthcare providers as it puts an increasing burden on an already frayed safety net.

Peter Lee

Most people who are eligible for COBRA don't take it. About 20 percent of eligible people use it. The other 80 percent buy on the individual market, or are uninsured.

Larry Levitt

Tax deductions do little or nothing for those people who are uninsured and devastated by high health care costs. Most uninsured are in the zero or 10 percent tax bracket, so tax deductions do little or nothing for them.

Bill Vaughan

Because Texas has the largest number of uninsured citizens of any state, we have a huge problem with uncompensated care provided in emergency departments and trauma centers.

Angela Gardner

Having 40 million people who are uninsured is absolutely scandalous.

Jeffrey Kindler

Employers have begun to step back from paying first-dollar coverage, and it's having an impact upon the uninsured.

Gail Warden

Connecticut doesn't have a large uninsured problem.

Bonnie Stewart

The uninsured are the symptom of the problem.

John Kitzhaber

Those deficiencies are noted, but at the same time, there is no mention about the Medicare discount cards that were introduced last year. These cards provide discounts between 30 and 40 percent or even more for uninsured patients.

Paul Fitzhenry

We're proud that our solution oriented approach has helped 160,000 previously uninsured Americans get private insurance.

Jennifer Holder

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Brent Neiser

We continue to be far from that mark here in New Jersey. Once again, a confluence of pressures, ranging from inadequate payments from governmental payers to a growing number of uninsured all contributed to the stagnant bottom lines.

Gary Carter

The only group growing faster than millionaires these days is the uninsured.

James Lardner

Plus, when you look at it from a global policy perspective, every single person we can get covered in preventative health care is someone not going to emergency rooms uninsured that we all end up paying for as taxpayers.

Josh Allen

For the past few months we've been researching where to concentrate our marketing efforts to make sure we're reaching the families this program serves. With our numbers down, we thought the best approach would be to target the communities and populations with high numbers of uninsured children.

Rose Naff

The uninsured problem is a problem that crosses ethnic bounds. The immigrant population is a small percentage of the total uninsured population and the uninsured are just a small percentage of the cost problem that we're facing.

Dean Sanpei

Hispanics had the highest rate of any people without health insurance. Children in poverty had a higher uninsured rate than any other children.

Charles Nelson

This report does confirm and reinforce a lot of things that we know have been happening. One is that with insurance premiums continually going up at a rapid rate and coverage eroding, we're finding that even moderate- and middle-income families are starting to find insurance unaffordable, with the result that the number of uninsured in those groups is rising.

Carol Pryor

The large and increasing number of uninsured Americans is no longer simply an altruistic concern on behalf of those without health coverage, but a matter of self-interest for everyone, ... The stakes are high both for businesses and for workers who do have health insurance because they bear the brunt of costs for the uninsured.

Ron Pollack

It's a statewide problem; the state legislature has approved this to get uninsured vehicles off the street.

Carl Duke

These changes will allow us to help an entire segment of the population who otherwise would not have access to the medicines they need. We might not have all the answers to the uninsured problem that continues to challenge our nation - but we are working to provide interim solutions that help patients today.

Tony Zook

Individuals who cannot afford health insurance coverage can still have access to appropriate care provided by free health clinics. We are pleased to be able to fund better access to healthcare for the uninsured and underinsured and to help limit one of the cost drivers of premiums for the insured -- that is the use of hospitals for non-emergency care by the uninsured.

George Johnson

The numbers would be truly catastrophic were it not for Medicaid and SCHIP, ... You'd have 10 million more uninsured.

Rick Mayes

In general, an individual's likelihood of having health insurance coverage increases with income, ... The research reported here suggests that the uninsured population is more likely to be characterized by low income than previous estimates would have us believe.

Dallas Salisbury

There are a number of folks who choose to be uninsured. I think it reaches that demographic. Nobody was going after this segment until these products came out.

Jim Atterholt

For the uninsured, there's no single database. We've had no real way of knowing how many people there are.

Wendy Ward

Despite its best efforts, HCA hospitals experienced weaker profitable admissions, intensifying local competition, higher operating costs and fast-rising uninsured patient volumes. HCA's fourth-quarter performance showcases the hospital industry's increasingly turbulent and tumultuous environment.

David Shove

Wal-Mart is, in fact, taking people off America's uninsured list. We estimate that we've taken 160,000 people off the ranks of the uninsured.

Nate Hurst

Every uninsured person ends up costing those with coverage more money, ... That's why it's keenly important to CHP's efforts to maintain affordable coverage that we reduce the number of people without this protection.

John Hogan

In city after city, when we were talking to hospitals, we kept hearing that there were more uninsured patients seeking treatment.

Paul Ginsburg

A national system of electronic medical record keeping could take a significant bite out of healthcare costs. These systems are expensive, but it doesn't take long before the benefits surpass the costs. People may choose to take the savings, or savings may be used to provide insurance to the uninsured. Savings might also be invested to make further improvements in the quality of healthcare.

Richard Hillestad

The reality is most of the uninsured children in the United States live in Texas.

Valinda Bolton