These are numbers about Health Care Reform realities and attitudes

Monday numbers

By Chris Fitzsimon
NC Policy Watch


49.1 million—number of people in the U.S. without health insurance in 2009 (Health Care Reform, The Cost of Failure, May 21, 2009)

18 million—projected number of people without health insurance in 2019 if House reform bill is enacted (Congressional Budget Office)

23 million—projected number of people without health insurance in 2019 if Senate reform bill is enacted (Congressional Budget Office)

65.7 million—projected number of people without health insurance in 2019 if reform is not enacted based on slow income growth and rising health care costs. (Health Care Reform: The Cost of Failure, The Urban Institute, May 21, 2009)

$13,375—average cost of a health insurance premium in 2009 (Drew Altman, Pulling it all Together, www.kff.org, September 2009.)

$30, 833—estimated average cost of a health insurance premium in 2019 if health care costs rise in the next ten years at the average rate of growth for the last ten years. (Kaiser Family Foundations projections based on data from Kaiser/HRET Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits, 1999-2009)

3 million—increase in the number of people without health insurance from 2008-2009. (Based on John Holahan and Bowen Garrett, Rising Unemployment, Medicaid, and the Uninsured, prepared for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, January 2009)

322, 000—increase in the number of people in North Carolina without health insurance from 2007-2009. (North Carolina’s Increase in the Uninsured, 2007-2009. Prepared by the North Carolina Institute of Medicine & the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

4—rank of North Carolina among states in growth in the number of the uninsured from 2007-2009 (Ibid)

22.5—percentage increase of people in North Carolina without health insurance from 2007-2009. (Ibid)

1—rank of North Carolina among states in percentage of the uninsured from 2007-2009. (Ibid)

42—percent of people who say they support the health care proposals being discussed in Congress (Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, January 2010

41—percent of people who say they oppose the health care proposals being discussed in Congress. (ibid)

54—percent of people who believe that given the serious economic problems facing the country, it is more important than ever to take on health care reform now (Ibid)

39—percent of people who believe that given the serious economic problems facing the country that we cannot afford to take on health care reform now. (Ibid)


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