California Business Minute™

Hi, I am Tim Johnson and welcome to the California Business Minute.

The headlines read 43 million uninsured.  Then there's the headline issue: But who are
the 43 million uninsured? The answers may surprise you.

--70% of the uninsured are in families with at least one full-time worker

--10% have at least one part-time worker. The rest are retired or unemployed

--8.4 million are eligible for government programs but don’t know they are,
  don’t know how to sign up or don’t have access to the documents that are required

 --10.2 million are noncitizens. About 80% of them are legal residents, but many have
   low-income jobs and can’t afford or don’t have access to insurance

--9.2 million have household incomes of $75,000 or higher. Some are healthy and
  don’t want coverage. Others can’t get it because of preexisting conditions

--7.5 million are aged 19-24 and either have no access to health care, lack money to
  pay for it or don’t think they need it because they are in good health

Californians make up the largest sum total of people without health insurance at 6.2 million
and the sixth largest percentage of a state's population without  insurance at 15 percent
behind Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, Louisianna and New Mexico.

I am Tim Johnson and this has been the California Business Minute.

For help with identifying low cost if not free health care services see www.MyHealthResources.org