EOC Week 5 Question 1

The health care reform happens to be a touchy subject to most people I know. In my opinion I do believe there are serious issues in our health care industry. People always want to cut cost in anything especially nowadays; the only problem is that people do not want to give up options for them when they are asked to do so. There are also the problems of the uninsured, but the number of sick people that currently lack access to the system because of insurance issues grows more often than not. I have run into two types of people: the people who think it is not “fair” that not everyone is insured, and the people who think it's not “fair” that some do not have the ability to be cared for. The census website states that the people in families, in unrelated subfamilies, or unrelated individuals that have not been covered at anytime of the year is 46,995 individuals and the ones covered by some type of health insurance during the year is  249,829. To me that is a huge gap in numbers. You have over 150,000 gaps between both groups. Although this page stats it was 2007 this is 2010 and terrifying as I think it is those numbers might have gone way up in the gap. Each demographic shown on the site show a varied percentages and numbers. The pattern I see is that the minorities are the ones with the most health reform trouble.