Ah, found it. Merry Christmas... This is done with pretty much only information provided by the actual report except where needed otherwise.
Feel free to do the calculations yourself if you disagree.
"Really, this just does a good job of it.
Most advanced one we have i believe.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p60-235.pdf
When you read the whole thing it paints a much different picture then just reading the number.
From the actual census... it states it under reports insurance for a variety of reasons.
17% of people with Medicaid for example report not having any health insurance.
Of the 43 Million... 17% of the people are on medicaid. So that's 7.31 Million people.
So 46 million uninsured drops to 38.70.
7% Of those surveyed that don't have insurance undocumented residents.(They don't qualify for medicare) About 9.4.%
Drops us to 29.3 million
Now, 14.4% of people who make 50K or more don't get health insurance.
Along with 7.8% of people who make 75K or more.
This is about the 4th and 5th quartiles in america. (A little more but lets be conservative.)
14.4% of the 4th quartile is 8.75 + 7.8% of the 5th quartile 4.74. = 13.49 million
These people can afford health insurance. They just don't purchase it.
So that leaves us with...
15.81 Million uninsured...
So we're down to 15.81 Million Americans without health care. Or 5 of the US population%? (Less actually since I was being conservative.)
Now then. Looking at said report. What are some other reporting flaws. One stated is that it only counts if you are uninsured at that time.
The research they link to is old... but shows that of that 47% reported as uninsured...
between 30%-48% of the people listed as uninsured aren't uninsured for the entire year. In other words... changing jobs, and stuff like that. Most of these people do get insurance again due to the lack of increase in proportion. As for how much this should knock off. Can't say since this likely settles more towards that high end.
Now the big one according to this... up to 14 million people who qualify for medicaid don't sign up.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/25/who-are-the-uninsured/
That would bring the number down to 1.81 million uninsured Americans who don't choose to be as such... though I'm not sure where he gets his number from... though I do know the number is pretty significant.
And this is still yet ignoring young people who just don't want insurance because they feel they don't need it.
What we really need is just a program to let people know they qualify for Medicaid."
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